title: Kendo UI Cascading Dropdown initial value not setting up
body: <p>I have cascade dropdownlists and when trying to define initial value (under cascade, too) instead to call the ajax controller methods with parent selected value it's passing blank values.</p>
  
  <p>I have equirement like, i can save my last search values and store it int database and after coming to that screen again, values will be selected by default.</p>
  
  <p>Everything is in Javascript means storing the values/ retriving and applying to controls :</p>
  
  <p><strong>My Cascade dropdown code :</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div style="width: 400px; clear: both; float: left; position: relative; display: table-cell;"&gt;
                          &lt;ul style="width: 450px; clear: both; float: none;"&gt;
                              &lt;li&gt;
                                  &lt;div class="editor-row"&gt;
                                      &lt;div class="editor-label-short"&gt;Home Country&lt;/div&gt;
                                      &lt;div class="editor-field"&gt;
                                           @(Html.Kendo().DropDownList()
                                                .Name("HOME_COUNTRY_ID")
                                                .HtmlAttributes(new { style = "width:200px" })
                                                .OptionLabel("Select Home Country")
                                                .DataTextField("Text")
                                                .DataValueField("Value")
                                                .DataSource(source =&gt; source.Read(read =&gt; read.Action("GetCountryJSON", "Employee")))
  
                                                 )
                                      &lt;/div&gt;
                                  &lt;/div&gt;
                              &lt;/li&gt;
                              &lt;li&gt;
                                  &lt;div class="editor-row"&gt;
                                      &lt;div class="editor-label-short"&gt;Home City&lt;/div&gt;
                                      &lt;div class="editor-field"&gt;
                                           @(Html.Kendo().DropDownList()
                                                .Name("HOME_CITY_ID")
                                                .HtmlAttributes(new { style = "width:200px" })
                                                .OptionLabel("Select Home City")
                                                .DataTextField("Text")
                                                .DataValueField("Value")
                                                .DataSource(source =&gt; source.Read(read =&gt; read.Action("GetCityByCountryJSON", "Employee")
                                                    .Data("getCountryId"))
                                                    .ServerFiltering(true))
                                                .AutoBind(false)
                                                .CascadeFrom("HOME_COUNTRY_ID")
                                                )
                                      &lt;/div&gt;
                                  &lt;/div&gt;
                              &lt;/li&gt;
                          &lt;/ul&gt;
                      &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Javacript Code which assigning Values in Page load means After Dom ready:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code> function applyvaluetoControls() {
          setdefaultvaluestoControls();
          $.each(activeLayout.controls, function(index) {
              $.each(options.emementArray, function(innerindex) {
                  if (options.emementArray[innerindex].attr("id") === activeLayout.controls[index]["id"]) {
                      if ((options.emementArray[innerindex]).is(':checkbox')) {
                          options.emementArray[innerindex].prop('checked', activeLayout.controls[index]["value"]);
                      } else {
  
                          if (options.emementArray[innerindex].attr("data-role") !== undefined &amp;&amp; options.emementArray[innerindex].attr("data-role") === "dropdownlist") {
  
                             // console.log(options.emementArray[innerindex].data('kendoDropDownList'));
  
                              if (options.emementArray[innerindex].data('kendoDropDownList').options.cascadeFrom !== "") {
                                  console.log($("#" + options.emementArray[innerindex].data('kendoDropDownList').options.cascadeFrom).val());
                                  options.emementArray[innerindex].data('kendoDropDownList').dataSource.read({ CompanyId: $("#" + options.emementArray[innerindex].data('kendoDropDownList').options.cascadeFrom).val() });
                              options.emementArray[innerindex].data('kendoDropDownList').value(activeLayout.controls[index]["value"]);
                              } else {
                              options.emementArray[innerindex].data('kendoDropDownList').enable();
                                  options.emementArray[innerindex].data('kendoDropDownList').value(activeLayout.controls[index]["value"]);
                              }
                              console.log(activeLayout.controls[index]["id"]);
                              console.log(activeLayout.controls[index]["value"]);
  
                          } else {
                              options.emementArray[innerindex].val(activeLayout.controls[index]["value"]);
                          }
  
                      }
                  }
              });
          });
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Console Log:</strong></p>
  
  <p>HOME_COUNTRY_ID // Parent Control Id</p>
  
  <p>322 // It Setting the value to Parent</p>
  
  <pre><code>     // Blank value when I am trying to read the value Parent Control (Country)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>City :   // Parent triggering Chile but with Blank Value
  HOME_CITY_ID  // Child
  342  // Value</p>
  
  <p>City : 322  // after coming out of loop it's again calling Child with Parent selected value</p>
  
  <p>and It's wiping out intial selected value of child.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Any help will be highly appreciated!!</strong></p>