Hi,

Thank you for your feedback for the Autocomplete widget. 

Regarding the autocomplete popup not closing when deleting characters get below minimum length, I'm adding this as a public feature request so it will be visible and could gather more votes from the members of the community: https://feedback.telerik.com/kendo-jquery-ui/1444570-enforceminlength-no-closing-the-dropdown-window-when-deleting-characters-get-below-minimum-length 

The Autocomplete widget is an extended input type=text so in case you would like to use value binding I would suggest you to consider trying Kedno Combobox, which enables you to use custom text and supports autocomplete functionality.

In terms of getting the id of the selected dataitem, you need to loop through the datasource items and extract the id of the relevant selected current item:

function getac() {
        var autoc = $('#autocomplete').data('kendoAutoComplete');
      	var data = autoc.dataSource.data();
        data.forEach(function(item) {
        	if(item.name === autoc.value()) {
						alert(item.id);
          }
        });
      }

Here is a sample showing this approach:

https://dojo.telerik.com/AHeSUmah/5

I hope this helps.

Best Regards,
Misho
Progress Telerik

Hello,

Thank you for your feedback. When you set minLength, the filtering event is triggered only over the minimum length 

https://dojo.telerik.com/EbIfOTEq/3 

This behavior is implemented by design for the purpose of performance optimization when there are lots of items to be loaded from a remote datasource.

Please don't hesitate to contact us again if another issue pops up or in case you have other feedback or questions related to Kendo UI components.

Best Regards,
Misho
Progress Telerik

Hi,

The autocomplete popup is opened once the min length of the input is reached e.g. 3. If you set enforceMinLength to true the widget will not show all items when the text of the search input is cleared and this behavior is by design:

- enforceMinLength set to false: https://dojo.telerik.com/OpuhEtIR

The filtering event is called when the min length is reached only so if you wish to filter for value below the min length I suggest you to consider attaching to the keyup event and close the autocomplete popup upon certain condition, for example:

$("#states").keyup(function() {
  		console.log( "Handler for .keyup() called." + auto.value() );
                if(auto.value().length < auto.options.minLength) {	
                   console.log("value less than minLength" );
       		   auto.close();
     		}
	});

Here is a sample showing this approach in action: https://dojo.telerik.com/aLITEhOh/5 

I hope this helps and you will manage to accomplish the desired behavior.

In case you have other questions related to Kendo UI components, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Best Regards,
Misho
Progress Telerik