title: Add array of items into kendo ui multi select
body: <p>please pardon my noobness, but I'm new to working with Telerik controls. I have seen many examples of this but they haven't been able to solve my problem. I have a Kendo UI multiselect widget which contains some items and a button which, on clicking, would fill the multiselect widget partially with some items. These items are obtained as JSON from a controller method (ASP.NET MVC). So, the button click actually fires an ajax request and on successfully firing up, it calls a javascript function to fill the multiselect widget up. As of now, the ajax gets fired successfully and the data that I want is coming back successfully, just that the multiselect is not displaying the values.</p>
  
  <p>My javascript/AJAX methods:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    function addItems(items) {
      var values = new Array();
      for (var i = 0; i &lt; items.length; i++) {
          values[i] = items[i].Item.ID; 
          // gets values back correctly
          console.log(values[i]);
      }
      // print values
      $('#items').data("kendoMultiSelect").value(['"' + values + '"']);
  
  
  };
  
  // success
  $(document).on("click", "#add-items-button", function () {
      var myUrl = $('#MyURL').val();    
      $.ajax({
          url: myUrl, // get URL from view
          method: 'GET',
          dataType: 'json',
          success: function (data) {
              addItems(data);
          },
          error: function (xhr, status, error) {
              console.log(error);
          }
      });
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My multiselect widget is a partial view so:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    @using Kendo.Mvc.UI
  
  @(Html.Kendo().MultiSelect()
      .Name("items") // Name of the widget should be the same as the name of the property
      .DataValueField("ID")
      .DataTextField("Name")   
      .BindTo((System.Collections.IEnumerable)ViewData["items"])
      .Placeholder("Add Items")
  )
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Am I missing something very obvious? Am I writing the data back in an incorrect format to the multiselect widget? Please help.</p>