Get ListView Item ID from DataSource

Hello Greg,

The following fiddle demonstrates how you can get the data item for selected item in ListView:
http://jsfiddle.net/AAMLA/

Regards,
Nikolay Rusev
the Telerik team

That ended up doing it! I couldn't use 'this' because I was in a different part of the code. Thanks for the help Nikolay.

This is the final piece of code I got this to work in:
var dbConnObj = $("#lstdbconn").data("kendoListView");
var index = dbConnObj.select().index(),
                    dataItem = dbConnObj.dataSource.view()[index];
var _id = dataItem.ID;

Nikolay, I have a similar issue but I have the selectable property set to "multiple". 

I am able to retrieve multiple html objects doing the select() method, but from that array I am not sure how to retrieve the index value of each element selected. 

In short could the below method work for multiple selections if so how? 


Thanks and Regards,
Saransh.

Hello Saransh,

You will have to iterate over the selected elements and execute the logic over every item.

Regards,
Nikolay Rusev
the Telerik team

Could you please be more specific?

How do I get the selected elements?

The following code doesn't work:

var selections = lv.select();
var index1 = selections[0].index();
var index2 = selections[1].index();

Hello Bill,

You can find an example few posts bellow in a jsfiddle.

Greetings,
Nikolay Rusev
the Telerik team

What is with the 1 line answers? The KendoUI documentation is lacking enough as it is.

For the benefit of paying subscribers like myself please provide more detailed responses with examples.  I don't see any additional posts below... unless you meant threads. If that is the case please link to the answer so we don't need to hunt around for it.

In response to Bill this is the solution I went with... not sure if there is an easier way.

var lv= $("#listviewID").data("kendoListView");

var allItems = lv.items();
var selections = lv.select();

 for (i = 0; i < selections.length; i++) {
            var currentIndex = allItems.index(selections[i]);
 }

Hello Paul,

This thread is rather old. It started in March 2012 and the last post is more that two months ago. What is your question? The original question in this thread has been answered and my post marked as answer. 

My first post has a runnable sample(jsfiddle) in which there are essentially 3 lines of code for getting the data item from selected element.


This is sample(one of possible) implementations for this scenario. Here is a related docs:
 - the change event
 - the select method
 - dataSource.view method

"What is with the 1 line answers? The KendoUI documentation is lacking enough as it is."

What is lacking from our documentation? We will be more than happy to hear about it, so we can improve it. Do you know that you can contribute to our docs portal. Kendo UI Docs allows and encourages the passionate Kendo UI community to get involved in making the Kendo UI docs better.

Regards,
Nikolay Rusev
the Telerik team

I was looking for a similar answer and have a very related one that will also provide a working example (though not all that different from those already here).

Hi Nikolay,

I have tried getting the selected item as you describe here.
The index resolves correctly but the dataItem resolves to undefined.
Are there any changes you have done in retrieving the selected item?
Would you share?

Best,

Hello Paul,

This thread contains an example and explanation of how to get the data item from selected item.
The ListView selection online demo also demonstrates this.

Regards,
Nikolay Rusev
Telerik