I want the datetimepicker to pull from the database if a value exists, show nothing if it doesn't, and get the current date and time when user clicks on the calendar icon.   It doesn't get the current time.  It shows midnight.  I can get the datetimepicker to default to today's date (on display) and current time if I don’t try and pull a value from the database.

Hi Team,

I would like the user to be able to add a value into the Kendo UI DateTimePicker's input with the calendar opened.  Currently, if the calendar is open, the focus will be on the calendar, and it will select today's date upon pressing enter. 

Thank you! 

Is there any possibility to add a new property to the datepicker that will let the user to use a datepicker like the ones used in materializecss framework?

Sample here:
http://materializecss.com/forms.html#date-picker

The editors do support inline footer's but you can't use an external footer template yet.

Example template:

<script type="text/template" id="datepicker-footer-template">

    "Today: #:kendo.toString(data, 'yyyy-MM-dd')#, Week: #:kendo.recurrence.weekInYear(data,kendo.culture().calendar.firstDay)#"

</script>

Suggestion to add a footer-template configuration option like this:

<input name="Date" data-role="datepicker" data-bind="value: Date" data-format="yyyy-MM-dd" data-week-number="true" data-footer-template="datepicker-footer-template"/>

Jan

Parsing of the users Input (defined by ParseFormats) is stopping, as soon as min date is set. This happens if the date,evaluated by the parsing, is outside the min/max range. 

I would suggest, that parsing takes the min/max boundaries into account.