Telerik Kendo Grid Doesn't Display Value Properly - asp.net-mvc

Question

i'm new to kendo UI and currently learning about custom editor.
My Problem is i managed to get my editor template working in edit mode and populate the data just fine, but somehow it won't save the value to the display grid
I Retreive all my data from API.
UPDATE:
i've managed to properly save the value from the custom editor template to the controller and it works just fine, but using clientTemplate won't display the correct value from what i select in the dropdown, and only show a string
DropDown Only Display A String
my setup code is like this
#( Html.Kendo().Grid<SalesOrderDetailVM>()
.Name("list-detail")
.Columns(columns =>
{
columns.Bound(c => c.Product).ClientTemplate("\\#=Product.ProductId\\#").Title("Products");
columns.Bound(c => c.Quantity);
columns.Bound(c => c.UnitPrice);
})
.Editable(GridEditMode.InCell)
.ToolBar(tool =>
{
tool.Create();
tool.Save();
}
)
.DataSource(dataSource => dataSource
.Ajax()
.ServerOperation(false)
.Batch(true)
.Model(model =>
{
model.Id(p => p.ProductId);
model.Field(p => p.Product);
})
.Create(act => act.Action("DetailCell_Create","SalesOrder"))
)
)
DDLProduct.cshtml:
#model AAF.WEB.MVC.ViewModels.ProductVM
#(
Html.Kendo().DropDownListFor(m => m)
.DataValueField("ProductId")
.DataTextField("ProductName")
.OptionLabel("Select Product")
.BindTo((System.Collections.IEnumerable)ViewData["products"])
)
Edit Mode
DisplayMode / Out of Product Edit Mode

Answer 1

Use template method to acheive dropdown with kendo grid.
GridForeignKey.cshtml - it should placed in shared folder or EditorTemplates
#model object
#(
Html.Kendo().DropDownListFor(m => m)
.BindTo((SelectList)ViewData[ViewData.TemplateInfo.GetFullHtmlFieldName("") + "_Data"])
)
In your kendo grid please change like below
#( Html.Kendo().Grid<AAF.WEB.MVC.ViewModels.SalesOrderDetailVM>()
.Name("list-detail")
.Columns(columns =>
{
columns.Bound(c => c.Id)
columns.ForeignKey(c => c.ProductId, (System.Collections.IEnumerable)ViewData["Products"], "ProductId", "ProductName").Title("Products");
columns.Bound(c => c.Quantity);
columns.Bound(c => c.UnitPrice);
})
.Editable(GridEditMode.InCell)
.ToolBar(tool =>
{
tool.Create();
tool.Save();
}
)
.DataSource(dataSource => dataSource
.Ajax()
.ServerOperation(false)
)
)
You can set the products data to view data. using this method you can save the product id.
Thanks

Answer 2

Okay after i frustrated for many hours, finally found the solution
the solution is to add a defaultvalue to the passed model in the grid
.Model(model =>
{
model.Id(p => p.ProductId);
model.Field(p => p.Product).DefaultValue(
ViewData["defaultProduct"] as ProductVM
);
})
and pass the data from the controller
// Function that get data from API
ViewData["products"] = products;
ViewData["defaultProduct"] = products.First();