How to use SetDataSource Method of the Kendo UI Grid

Question

Has anyone been able to use setdatasource method of the kendo UI grid? I believe this is used to assign datasource that can be assigned to the grid at the later stage and al

Answer 1

What have you tried so far? This is pretty basic.

Example:

var ddl = $('#testDropDown').data("kendoDropDownList");
var otherDropDownList= $('#otherDropDown').data("kendoDropDownList");

var ds = new kendo.data.DataSource();
ds.data(otherDropDownList.dataSource.data()); // set new DataSource to otherDropDown's data source then filter it
ds.filter(
     {
         field: "Id",
         operator: "eq",
         value: parseInt(id)
     }
)

ddl.setDataSource(ds);

Obviously this is all going to be different for whichever scenario you have.

Update for Grid

var ds = new kendo.data.DataSource();
var grid = $('#grid').data("kendoGrid");

grid.setDataSource(ds); // sets to a blank dataSource

Or, use this dataSource with another grid?

var gridDataSource = $('#grid').data("kendoGrid").dataSource;
var secondGrid = $('#secondGrid').data("kendoGrid");

secondGrid.setDataSource(gridDataSource);