title: Setting initial value in a Kendo UI Cascading Combobox with server filtering
body: <p>I need to make a cascading combobox with server filtering but I'm having trouble setting the initial value.</p>
  
  <p>The dropdownlist on which the combobox depends looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>@(Html.Kendo().DropDownListFor(model =&gt; model.SelectedCompany)
      .Name("UserDetailSelectedCompany")
      .HtmlAttributes(new { style = "width:115px;" })
      .BindTo(Model.CompanyList)
      .Value(Model.SelectedCompany))
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Where:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><code>model.SelectedCompany</code> is a <code>string</code></li>
  <li>Name attribute is set because I need that in the combobox (I've read on the Kendo UI forums I'm not supposed to specify it, but I don't know how to do the cascading combobox without it)</li>
  <li><code>Model.CompanyList</code> is a <code>List&lt;string&gt;</code></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>An here's the combobox:</p>
  
  <pre><code>@(Html.Kendo().ComboBoxFor(model =&gt; model.SelectedDealer)
      .Name("UserDetailSelectedDealer")
      .DataTextField("Name")
      .DataValueField("ID")
      .HtmlAttributes(new { style = "width:325px" })
      .Filter(FilterType.Contains)
      .AutoBind(false)
      .Enable(false)
      .MinLength(3)
      .DataSource(source =&gt; source.Read(read =&gt; read.Action("GetDealers", "Administration").Data("Administration.GetUserDealerParameters"))
                                  .ServerFiltering(true))
      .CascadeFrom("UserDetailSelectedCompany")
      .SelectedIndex(Model.SelectedDealer.ID))
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Where:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><code>model.SelectedDealer</code> is a <code>Dealer</code></li>
  <li><code>Dealer</code> class contains a <code>Name</code>(string) and an <code>ID</code> (int)</li>
  <li>MVC action GetDealers return a JSON converted <code>List&lt;Dealer&gt;</code></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Does anyone have an example that demonstrate how I can get this to work? The Kendo UI doc has example for a cascading combobox, server filtering and setting initial value, but not for the 3 at same time.</p>