16 Jul 2012
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I've implemented the autocomplete component successfully to search against a list of website urls. However when I submit my form i want to submit the numerical id value of the site not the text value. Is this possible?
$("#maintSiteId").kendoAutoComplete({
minLength: 3,
dataTextField: "site_url",
dataValueField: "site_id", // this doesn't seem to work and is depreciated?
filter: "contains",
height: 320,
dataSource: {
pageSize: 20,
transport: {
read: {
url: "/Sites/DataJsonSites.cshtml",
dataType: "json",
type: "GET"
},
parameterMap: function(options) {
return $.extend(options, {
id: '',
title: $("#maintSiteId").data("kendoAutoComplete").value()
});
}
},
placeholder: "Select site...",
separator: ", ",
suggest: true
}
});
Input field contained within standard <form>
<input class="span6" id="maintSiteId" name="maintSiteId" style="width: 320px; margin-left: 0;"/>
Sample JSON data being used;
[{"site_id":1,"site_url":"www.mysite1.com","site_name":"my site 1"},{"site_id":2,"site_url":"www.mysite2.com","site_name":"my site 2"}]