Kendo window refresh does not work

Question

I am stuck at what appears to be a very simple scenario: Loading a Kendo window with a partial view bound to a model, with a dynamic parameter modelId that will be provided by client side js.

I found out about the refresh() method, but this implies that there is already a kendo window intialized. That's the first problem. I need the the modelId to display content. So I worked around this issue and simply returned a new model intially which than should be replaced/refreshed by the refresh() method + a valid parameter modelId and finally be displayed. Problem: The view won't be updated. The refresh() method actually works, though. The controller receives the parameter modelId, fetches the corresponding model and returns the view. But the Kendo window still holds the empty viewmodel instead.

I tryed really hard to get this to work but without success..

@(Html.Kendo().Window()
      .Name("window")
      .Title("")
    //loads an empty viewmodel intially as there is no possibility to pass parameter
      .LoadContentFrom("Actionname", "Controller")          
      .Actions(actions => actions.Close())
      .Modal(true).Visible(false)
      .HtmlAttributes(new {style = "margin: 10px"})
      )

Javascript snippet:

$("#window").data("kendoWindow").refresh({
    url: '/controller/actionname/',
    data: { parameterlabel: parameter}
});
$("#window").data("kendoWindow").open().center(true);

Answer 1

Not sure if this solves your main issue, but you should be able to do this:

@(Html.Kendo().Window()
    .Name("window")
    .Title("")
    .LoadContentFrom("Actionname", "Controller", new { modelID = modelId })          
    .Actions(actions => actions.Close())
    .Modal(true).Visible(false)
    .HtmlAttributes(new {style = "margin: 10px"})
)

Then you won't need to load the empty model and refresh it with the correct parameter.