Kendo UI with ASP.NET MVC3 default values when adding row to grid

Question

I am converting an existing app from Telerik MVC extensions to the newer KendoUI product. I am using the grid control. How do I specify the default values for the columns when adding a new row to the grid?

With the old Telerik MVC extensions, I did the following:

.Editable(editing=>editing.Mode(GridEditMode.InCell).DefaultDataItem(Model.defaultItem))

The defaultItem of my model was my default for added rows. So how do I do this with Kendo?

Answer 1

Yo yo yo mate,

You need to specify default value for each of the fields via the dataSource model configuration

Here is an example you can use ;)

@(Html.Kendo()
.Grid<TestModel>()
.Name("SomeOtherGridName")
.DataSource(ds => ds.Ajax().Read("test", "test").Model(
    x => {
        x.Field(c => c.Val1).DefaultValue(5);
        x.Field(c => c.Val2).DefaultValue("cool!");
    }
 ))
.Columns(columns =>
{
    columns.Bound(c => c.Val1);
    columns.Bound(c => c.Val2);
})
)