FYI - There are several related requests that have been voted by 100s of users and marked as completed. However, this support is only at the surface and not complete.

We need all kendo components to consistently support binding to more than just primitive properties but at a minimum to models with Id (for reference) and labels (for display).

Many kendo components support this simple concept with 'dataTextField' and 'dataValue' field, but as soon as we try to customize something seemingly simple (for example multi-checkbox filters on grid columns) we are left with custom coding because at that point kendo falls back to only supporting simple arrays of strings etc.

Thanks.