Add an "Add New..." option to a Kendo DropDownList - drop-down-menu

I'm using a Kendo DropDownListFor which populates from a DB table. I want to add an option at the end that says "Add New..." which takes the user to a Create view for that DB table. Is there a way to do this (preferably in the MVC Helper, not in javascript).

Not possible without JavaScript. If using JavaScript you need to use the change event and see if the value is equal to that last item in the list then navigate the page. Something like this:
function onChangeOfDDl(e){
if(...) { //you condition
window.location.href = "/editRecord/" + this.value()
// this.value() will give you the value for the selected item or the text if no underlying value exists
}
}

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Kendo Grid issue with dropdown showing [object Object] after first binding

I have a Kendo UI grid which uses a dropdown as the editor for a field. I'm having problems getting the dropdown to properly bind to the viewModel (at least I think that is the issue). If I make a selection from the dropdown then add a new row or navigate from the row I am on, the field shows [object Object]. Now if I go back to the row and make a different selection and navigate to a different row, it behaves like it should, showing the selection I made. Here is a js bin showing the behavior.
The problem is SuggestedVendor type is string but when you click Add New Line Item link to add new item you set some default value Id: 1, Position: 1 and SuggestedVendor : null but it should empty string like SuggestedVendor : ''
dataSource.add({ Id: 1, SuggestedVendor: (viewModel.suggestedVendor === null) ? '' /* instead of null*/ : viewModel.suggestedVendor.SuggestedVendor, Position:1 });
Working demo
Note:
You can set your default value during datasource field declaration, for more details demo for custom editing. In this way you don't need manually handle $(".k-grid-custom-create").on("click", function (e) {...})

Set title and additional properties to kendo ui grid

I am using kendo ui grid to display data. I want to set title for the grid.Is there any way to set it.
Also I want to set some additional/custom property for grid which will help to identify the grid uniquely. Any custom property I can set to grid so I can get its value when required.
So in case if there are more instances on grid this will help.
Please suggest on this.
Iterating through all your tables can be done using:
$.each($(".k-grid"), function (idx, grid) {
// Do whatever you want to do with "grid"
...
});
If you want to add a title, might be something like:
$.each($(".k-grid"), function (idx, grid) {
$(grid).data("kendoGrid").wrapper.prepend('<div class="k-grid-header"><table><thead><tr><th class="k-header">Title</th></tr></thead></table></div>');
});
For setting a click event to the HTML img elements, you can do:
$("tr", ".k-grid").on("click", "img:first", function () {
// Here "this" is the "img" on which you clicked, finding the grid is:
var grid = $(this).closest(".k-grid").data("kendoGrid");
console.log("grid", grid);
// If you want to access the "id"
console.log("id", grid.element.attr("id"));
});
Once you click on the first image of each row what I do in the event handler is finding the closest HTML element with k-grid class (the grid): this is the HTML containing the grid.
If you want to get Kendo UI grid element the you need to use data("kendoGrid").
Simple and elegant.
In this JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/OnaBai/2qpT3/2/, if you click on "Add Titles" button you add a title to each table and if you click on "Add Handlers" and then in an image, you will get an alert with the id of the table that the image belongs to.
EDIT: If you want to iterate on every image that is in the first column, of every KendoUI grid on your document, you should do:
$.each($("td:first > img", ".k-grid table tbody > tr"), function (idx, elem) {
// "elem" is the image
console.log(idx, elem);
// associate event
$(elem).on("click", fnHandler);
});
I prefer to change the title like this:
$("#grid th[data-field=Field]").html("Title");

Kendo cascading dropdown loading dropdown based on other drop down selection

I am planning of using a cascading kendo drop down.
Drop down 1 - Countries - it will list down all the countries.
Drop down 2 - States - Based on the selection of the country I have to show the states here.
The data for both are loaded from my api controllers. I referred to this link
http://demos.kendoui.com/web/dropdownlist/cascadingdropdownlist.html
But, I need to pass the first selected value to the second drop down.
PLease suggest the best way to do it. Examples would be really helpful.
Thanks.
you have to use events for that
http://demos.kendoui.com/web/dropdownlist/events.html
.Events(e =>
{
e.Change("change").Select("select").Open("open").Close("close").DataBound("dataBound");
})
<script>
function change() {
// get a reference to the dropdown list
var dropdownlist = $("#dropdownlistTwoForStates").data("kendoDropDownList");
//Write your logic here to bind data for thie dropdown
// disable the dropdown list
dropdownlist.enable(true);
};
</script>

How to set default field values for add form in jqgrid from current row

Add toolbar button is used to add new row to jqgrid.
Add form which appears contains all filed vlaues empty.
How to set add form field values from column values from row which was current/selected when add command was issued ?
json remote data is used. Or if this is simpler, how to call server method passing current/selected row to retrieve default values for add form from server ?
jqgrid contains also hidden columns. If possible values from hidden columns from current row should also sent to add controller if add form is saved.
Update
I tried to use Oleg great suggestion by using
afterShowForm: function(formID) {
var selRowData,
rowid = grid.jqGrid('getGridParam', 'selrow');
if (rowid === null) {
// todo: how to cancel add command here
alert('Please select row');
return;
}
selRowData = grid.jqGrid('getRowData', rowid);
if (selRowData === null) {
alert('something unexpected happened');
return;
}
$('#' + 'Baas' + '.FormElement', formID).val(selRowData.Baas);
}
Application keeps add form open after saving. After first save Baas field is empty. It looks like afterShowForm event runs only once, not after every save. How to fix this so that multiple rows with default values can added without closing add form?
How to cancel or not allow Add command if there is no selected row ?
If you need to make some initialization actions only for Add form you can use at least two approaches:
the usage of defaultValue property as function inside of editoptions. The callback function defaultValue can provide the value for the corresponding field of the Add form based of the data from selected row. For optimization purpose you can read the data from the current selected row once in the beforeInitData callback/event. You can just read the data which you need or make an synchronous call to the server to get the information which you need. The only disadvantage of the usage of defaultValue property is that it uses jQuery.val method to set the default value for all fields of Add form with exception 'checkbox' edittype. For the checkboxs jqGrid set checked property of the checkbox of false, 0, no, off or undefined are not found in the value returned by defaultValue property. So the approach will not work for other edittypes. For example it can fail for the custom edittype.
the usage of beforeShowForm or afterShowForm. Inside of the callback functions you can set any value of the form. You can find the filed of the corresponding column of the grid by id of the field which is the same as the value of name property of the corresponding column.
Like you already knows you can get the id of the current selected row with respect of getGridParam and get the data from the selected row
var selRowData, rowid = grid.jqGrid('getGridParam', 'selrow');
if (rowid !== null) {
// a row of grid is selected and we can get the data from the row
// which includes the data from all visible and hidden columns
selRowData= grid.jqGrid('getGridParam', 'selrow');
}
where grid is jQuery object like $('#list') which selects the main <table> element of the grid.
In the demo you can see how works the first approach described above.

JQuery - which form was submitted?

I have a page of products and for each of them, I want to have a form that uses AJAX to update the session. I've done this bit - just providing background.
I use the product's ID to create a different form class and name for each form, so each form is called something like this_form_name_567 and the next would be this_form_name_568 and so on.
There is a submit button per form. I'm having trouble figuring out
Which event is best to use so that the correct form will be identified when a submit button is clicked?
Once clicked, how to then make sure the correct value is taken from a hidden field (unique ID) within the submitted form so that I can populate a line of code such as:
$.post("compare_response.php", {compare_this: $("#compare_this").val()}, function(data){
}
You can use the .closest tree traversal method to get the form in which the button of interest is nested:
$("input[type=submit]").click(function() {
alert($(this).closest("form").attr("id"));
});
or even simpler, just get the element's form property :)
$("input[type=submit]").click(function() {
alert(this.form.id);
});
You can try it out here.
You can get the form you are submitting like this:
$('form').submit(function() {
var yourForm = $(this);
var hiddenValue = $(this).find('input[type=hidden]').val();
});
Of course you can get the hidden value differently, or if you have more than one hidden you'll have to give a little more information about it.

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