Prevent Kendo Grid from auto saving - kendo-grid

Question

How can I stop the kendo grid/datasource automatically posting changes to the server?
I've tried intercepting Grid's saveChanges but it isn't being triggered by the Updated command. As per the docs, DataSource's auto-sync by default should be false, but I went ahead and set it anyway but to no effect.
$("#items-grid").kendoGrid({
dataSource: {
autoSync: false,
type: "json",
transport: {
read: {
url: "#Html.Raw(Url.Action("
ItemList ", "
PurchaseRequisition ", new {prId = #Model.Id }))",
type: "POST",
dataType: "json",
},
update: {
url: "#Html.Raw(Url.Action("
ItemEdit ", "
PurchaseRequisition "))",
type: "POST",
dataType: "json",
}
},
sync: function(e) {
console.log("sync complete");
},
schema: {
data: "Data",
total: "Total",
errors: "Errors",
model: {
id: "Id",
fields: {
/...
}
}
},
},
saveChanges: function(e) {
// not fired from Update command
e.preventDefault();
},
columns: [{
// ...
}, {
command: [{
name: "edit",
text: {
edit: "Edit",
update: "Update",
cancel: "Cancel"
}
}],
width: 100
}]
});
});

Answer 1

You can try with dataSource batch set to true.
var dataSource = new kendo.data.DataSource({
transport: {...},
batch: true
...}
$("#grid").kendoGrid({
dataSource: dataSource,
navigatable: true,
pageable: true,
height: 550,
toolbar: ["create", "save", "cancel"],
columns: [...],
editable: true
});
NOTE: this is inline editing.
You can see an example on the official page: Batch editing