title: Populating a Kendo UI DropDownList in an Edit Form
body: <p>I'm using Kendo UI's DropDownList widget within an edit form and can't seem to set the initial value according to the organisation's ID. I suspect it has everything to do with the 'index' but am stumped as to how to retrieve this information when the edit form fields are populated by a query and the dropdown's options are pulled from remote datasource.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$("#organisations").kendoDropDownList({
              dataTextField: "orgName",
              dataValueField: "organisationID",
              index: 0,
              optionLabel: "-- Select --",
              dataSource: {
                  transport: {
                      read: "assets/data/data.clients.php"
                  },
              }
          });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any help is appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>@rrfive</p>