Unplanned
Last Updated: 13 Jul 2022 13:47 by ADMIN
Created by: Patrick
Comments: 16
Category: Data Source
Type: Feature Request
89
At the moment, the DataSource only uses one field for its ID property (if you enter several, then only one is used, apparently).  This doesn't reflect reality, in that in many cases (where one record is a child of another), the key field for a database table is a composite (from 2 or more fields).  
The existing situation causes problems in inline editing of the KendoUI grid, because default values need to be set for foreign key fields, but if these are set to a valid value, then spurious calls to the Inline_Create method occur because the DataSource treats the record as a new record when it is not.
In any case, allowing multiple fields would simply reflect reality.
Unplanned
Last Updated: 01 Jul 2021 11:35 by ADMIN
See this forum post for details: http://www.kendoui.com/forums/framework/mvvm/getting-access-to-array-index-while-binding-an-array-source.aspx
Unplanned
Last Updated: 02 Sep 2021 11:08 by ADMIN
Created by: Luc
Comments: 0
Category: Data Source
Type: Feature Request
12
In the context of MVVM bindings, it would be great to have a way to evaluate certain conditions/expressions, especially within template bindings, by "navigating" to other properties of the ViewModel, or to other properties of the currently iterated object.

For example:

<ul data-role="listview" data-bind="source: anObservableObject" data-template="some-template"></ul>
<script id="some-template" type="text/x-kendo-template">
    <li data-bind="text: whatever, visible: $source.someProperty == $data.otherProperty"></li>
</script>

In this example, $data refers to the current iteration data, and $source refers to the source. So the visible binding would be true/false according to the expression which would evaluate an arbitrary property on the source and an arbitrary property on the iterated object.

This is similar to Knockout's mechanism and it allows for greater flexibility within templates.

Unplanned
Last Updated: 29 Jul 2019 13:54 by ADMIN
Created by: Imported User
Comments: 2
Category: Data Source
Type: Feature Request
9
When using aggregates, it should be possible to define your own aggregate function, or even set it globally for kendo, so it could be used in other places. i.e. 

currently you can only specify the function name like 'sum', 'avg', etc. with this idea you could give the whole function like function(arguments...) {}

Also from what I saw it would be nice to have the `functions` object from kendo.data.js accessible, so you could add your custom functions, like:
`kendo.data.aggregate_functions['median'] = function(arguments...) {}` 
Unplanned
Last Updated: 03 Nov 2022 09:27 by ADMIN
Created by: SAM
Comments: 4
Category: Data Source
Type: Feature Request
9

When the grid is configured for working with UTC on the server-side, the value sent from the filter menu on the client-side would not be properly sent to the server. 

If the stringifyDates option of the transport of the data source is set, the value would still be sent in a localized date format without information for the time zone, for instance, GMT(+0300).

In case the value sent from the client is modified, the parameterMap would be called afterward and would override the modified value. 

Moreover, the Kendo UI Binder on the server-side is not configured to be working with dates that have additional data for the time zone appended to the end. Therefore, sending the modified data would not be parsed correctly and FormatException error would be thrown.

Unplanned
Last Updated: 01 Oct 2021 14:40 by ADMIN
Currently, when binding an observable viewModel to a date/time picker control, only date formats built in to the widgets ( a minimal set) and formats specified implicitly by the ParseFormats option. 

I understand the reason for this being to prevent users from being able to type a date or time into the widgets in a format other that what is deemed appropriate for the widget, but it should behave differently when being bound from a view model.

Different platforms and web APIs serialize dates in different ways and developers should not have to always write a custom parser into the kendo datasource schema  for each datetime property of an object or have to specify the ParseFormat on the widget just so it can be bound properly to a date/time picker widget.

In the latest release (as of this posting) the parsing of Microsoft's JavaScriptSerializer date format has been added, ignoring the ParseFormats of the widgets. This is a great step in the right direction, however the W3C standard ISO 8601 date format is not being parsed while bypassing the ParseFormats of the widgets.

Also, currently, the date parser will not allow parsing of ISO 8601 date strings with more than 3 decimal places for fractions of a second. Both Microsofts DateTime.ToString("O") and Newtonsoft's Json.Net's ISO serialization of dates output 7 decimal places for fractions of a second. (I have been in contact with the kendo team about this specifically and they are going to add support, however they are not currently planning to make it bypass the parseformats unless the community votes for it here on UserVoice).

Since Kendo has specific functions used for binding widgets and elements, they should be able to easily make it so all parseformats (built-in and implicitly specified) are used when parsing dates that are set using binding to widgets expecting an actual date object and not a string (the date/time pickers).
Unplanned
Last Updated: 03 Dec 2021 06:49 by ADMIN
ADMIN
Created by: Abhishek
Comments: 0
Category: Data Source
Type: Feature Request
6
One of key areas for enterprises is data security. If we can add the capability of encrypting data via kendo datasource, it would be awesome. 
This encryption should automatically happen when data is received from a service using the encryption algorithm specified as an attribute of kendo datasource. Similarly, decryption should also happen when the datasource receives the encrypted data.
Unplanned
Last Updated: 19 Jan 2022 14:48 by ADMIN
Created by: Alexandru
Comments: 0
Category: Data Source
Type: Feature Request
6
In MDX you can sort the data you query for using the order function, specifying a set, a value to sort by (most commonly a measure) and the direction and whether to break hierarchy or not. I appreciate that hierarchy-breaking sorting might be quite difficult to pull off nicely, but I believe the MDX could be generated in such a way to support sorting, by specifying one of the members on an axis and the measure.
Unplanned
Last Updated: 11 Jan 2021 07:42 by palhal
Trigger change only once for all items in an array passed to the DataSource.pushUpdate() method. That would result in improved performance of the operation.
Unplanned
Last Updated: 16 Mar 2022 15:54 by ADMIN
Created by: Howard
Comments: 1
Category: Data Source
Type: Feature Request
4
Unplanned
Last Updated: 01 Oct 2021 04:56 by ADMIN
Created by: Imported User
Comments: 1
Category: Data Source
Type: Feature Request
3
Would be good to have ability to to something like this on an observable object:
o.set({ a: 1 })
I.e. pass an object to the set function to update/add properties in o from that object.
Unplanned
Last Updated: 22 Oct 2021 12:49 by ADMIN
There are several undocumented methods on the data source which provide some really nice functionality. The DataSource is able to store multiple 'pages' of data in an internal collections of ranges that can be accessed and populated by the range() and prefetch() methods. It looks like this is used mostly to support virtual grid scrolling, but I have found it very useful for other applications where a data source uses server operations. This is a really great feature and I'd like to see it officially supported in the future!
Unplanned
Last Updated: 11 Nov 2021 12:04 by ADMIN
Created by: Roman
Comments: 0
Category: Data Source
Type: Feature Request
3
Currently kendo.DataSource.get() and kendo.Datasource.getByUid() methods are very slow in case there some non-trivial amount of data stored. Actually, these methods loop on all items in dataSource on each call.
Why not add index for id field? Indexed access can boost up many real-life scenarios.
I prepared following jsfiddle to demonstrate the slowness:
http://jsfiddle.net/terikon/eb3tsjzf/9/
Unplanned
Last Updated: 14 Oct 2021 10:26 by ADMIN

We use a DataSource with a custom transport and read method to filter some data on the server.


return new kendo.data.DataSource({
    pageSize: 10,
    serverPaging: true,
    serverSorting: true,
    serverFiltering: true,
    type: "json",
    sort: {
      field: "name",
      dir: "asc"
    },
    transport: {
      read: function (options) {}....

 

As the user types we issue a read request but it would be nice to have a way to cancel the last read request with a method call (ie. abortRequest() or abortReadRequest() ). We can implement a work around as shown here https://dojo.telerik.com/@Dimitar-Goshev/IxaLUtIw but I think it would be reasonable feature to simply have this internalized into the DataSource code so that the abort logic is internal to the DataSource class.

Unplanned
Last Updated: 01 Oct 2021 11:02 by ADMIN
Created by: Ross Micheals
Comments: 0
Category: Data Source
Type: Feature Request
2
The HiearchicalDataSource should support XML data binding. If not, then the examples and documentation should be updated until that support is present.
Unplanned
Last Updated: 20 Jan 2022 11:37 by ADMIN
Is there any way to listen spreadsheets filter or bind one more event after spreadsheet filter method?
Unplanned
Last Updated: 16 Nov 2021 15:57 by ADMIN
The filter row is really nice, but for more flexibility it'd be nice to not hit the server until a user has populated the row with all the filters they want. The way it works now is if you tab out/hit enter/select dropdown list item/etc. it hits the server. The ability to filter when the user explicitly wants to isn't really there.
Unplanned
Last Updated: 05 Nov 2021 10:03 by ADMIN
Created by: Vijay
Comments: 0
Category: Data Source
Type: Feature Request
1
Add Event handlers after Batch Edit, Save Changes
Unplanned
Last Updated: 20 Sep 2021 14:13 by ADMIN
Created by: Nathan
Comments: 0
Category: Data Source
Type: Feature Request
1
Make spreadsheet support virtual scrolling as the grid does in this example - https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/grid/virtualization-remote-data

This allows handling of much larger datasets than other methods of data binding.
Unplanned
Last Updated: 28 Apr 2020 07:30 by ADMIN
Created by: Jeff
Comments: 0
Category: Data Source
Type: Feature Request
1

Provide a data source setting and functionality that all the dates be created as UTC replacing the need to write the requestEnd code everywhere:

https://docs.telerik.com/aspnet-mvc/html-helpers/data-management/grid/how-to/editing/utc-time-on-both-server-and-client

It would be very helpful not to have to do this in every scenario that requires using UTC dates and have the data source create the dates in UTC as they reach the client.

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