Common Issues

This page provides solutions for common problems you may encounter while working with the Kendo UI MultiSelect widget.

DataSource

Selected Item Is Lost When Bound to Shared DataSource

Important

This issue can also be observed in Kendo UI ComboBox and Kendo UI DropDownList. The solution demonstrated in the examples below is fully applicable to the case of them both as well.

The selected item of the widget is directly related to the data source view. If it does not contain the selected item, then the widget will remove its current value. Such behavior is expected.

Solution

Use separate data sources.

The example below demonstrates a sample issue.

Example

var ds = new kendo.data.DataSource({ data: ["foo", "bar"] });

$("#ms1").kendoMultiSelect({
    dataSource: ds
});

$("#ms2").kendoMultiSelect({
    dataSource: ds
});

The example below demonstrates the solution to the above issue.

Example

var ds = new kendo.data.DataSource({ data: ["foo", "bar"] });
ds.read();

$("#ms1").kendoMultiSelect({
    dataSource: new kendo.data.DataSource({ data: ds.data() });
});

$("#ms2").kendoMultiSelect({
    dataSource: new kendo.data.DataSource({ data: ds.data() });
});

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Common Issues

DataSource

Selected Item Is Lost When Bound to Shared DataSource

Example

Example

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