Custom kendo grid toolbar button

Question

I have a Kendo Grid, in which I added a custom button in the toolbar. I have mapped a on click function to that button.

 <div class="row">
        <div class="clearfix">
            @(Html.Kendo().Grid<ModelLayer.Models.TableNotificationModel>()
        .Name("successfullData")
        .ToolBar(e =>
        {
           e.Custom().Text("Save").HtmlAttributes(new { id = "customSaveButton", @class = "floatRight" });
        })
        .Pageable(pageable => pageable.Input(true).Numeric(false))
        .Scrollable()
        .Sortable()
        .Filterable()
        .ColumnMenu()
        .Groupable()
        .Columns(columns =>
        {
            columns.Bound(c => c.OPERATOR_OBJECTID).Title("ID").Hidden();
            columns.Bound(c => c.SETTLEMENT_CODE).Title("settlement code").Width("100px");
            columns.Bound(c => c.TECHNOLOGY_CODE).Title("tech code").Width("100px");
            columns.Bound(c => c.UPLOAD_SPEED_CLASS_CODE).Title("upload").Width("100px");
            columns.Bound(c => c.DOWNLOAD_SPEED_CLASS_CODE).Title("download").Width("100px");
            columns.Bound(c => c.DATA_CATEGORY_QOS_CODE).Title("data category").Width("100px");
            columns.Bound(c => c.SHAPE).Title("shape").Width("100px");
            columns.Bound(c => c.messageOut).Title("message").Width("100px");
        })
        .DataSource(dataSource => dataSource
            .Ajax()
            .PageSize(20)
            .Read(read => read.Action("Upload_Read", "Upload").Data("sendAdditional"))
            )
    )

        </div>
    </div>
<script>
    function sendAdditional() {
        var data = JSON.parse('@Html.Raw(Json.Serialize(Model?.TableNotificationModel))');

        return {
            model: data
        }
    }

$("#successfullData").on("click", "#customSaveButton", function () {
        var model = JSON.parse('@Html.Raw(Json.Serialize(Model?.TableNotificationModel))');
        

        $.ajax({
            method: "POST",
            url: '@Url.Action("SaveFile", "Upload")',
            data: {
                model: model,
                saveType: saveType
            } 
        })
    });
</script>

I added a function which send the model via an ajax call to my controller where I am returning a view. The problem is, the custom save button adds a # in the URL and I think it's because of that I cannot return the view of my action in the controller.

public ActionResult SaveFile(List<TableNotificationModel> model)
        {
            //code shortened for brevity
            ViewBag.Message = String.Format(cmdMessage);
            return View(tModel);
        }

I am kind of stuck, I don't know how to proceed. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Check if your javascript function is identifying your button event by the ID: "customSaveButton".

For example:

 $('#customSaveButton').on('click', function () {

    $.ajax({
        url: '/YourContreoller/SaveFile',
        type: 'POST',   
        dataType: 'json',
        data: $('#dataThatYouWantToSend').serialize(),
        success: function (sucess) {
            console.log("Success");
            document.location.href = '/'
        },
        error: function (xhr, textStatus, errorThrown) {
             console.log(textStatus);
        }

    });
});