Error without data-role="listview" on MVVM and Templates

Hello Mark,

The dataSource is designed to work with widgets, not a simple templates. As a solution for your case, I recommend to bind the template to an array, thus way you should not receive the error.

For convenience I modified your Fiddle, you can check the result here.
I hope this helps.

Greetings,
Alexander Valchev
the Telerik team

Hi Alexander,

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately it doesn't really solve my problem since, for my actual solution, I'm using remote data hence using dataSources.

It is not clear, to me at least, that dataSources are only for use with widgets. There are some of your own web demos: http://demos.kendoui.com/web/datasource/remote-data.html where the dataSource is not used specifically for a widget.

I would imagine that I am not the only customer who has requirements where using your dataSource with arbitrary templates is useful. In would not be practical for you to have a widget for every possible scenario.

I realize that I could use the dataSource with remote data and then have code that populates an array tied to my templates however this diminishes the value in using the product. I would much prefer to be able to create applications that have a consistent approach to data, logic and presentation.

Given that the templates almost work as is (by setting data-role) would it not be possible to enhance the product to support templates & dataSources in the future?

Thanks,

Mark.

Hi Mark,

Thank you for the feedback, I will forward it to the team for further discussions.
Regarding to the demo that you pointed, it does not assign a dataSource to the template, instead it renders the template using the dataSource view - an array of objects.

If you wish you can use a similar workaround in your case, to illustrate the implementation I updated the previous example.

Regards,
Alexander Valchev
the Telerik team