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Icenium Everlive is Backend as a Service offering from Telerik. In this post we will take a look on how easily KendoUI DataSource can be used to fetch data from Icenium Everlive.

Read : How to fetch data from Icenium Everlive using KendoUI DataSource

To start with, in Everlive I have created a content type with name Session. In Everlive Content type represents a data type or loosely I can say it represents a table. I have created content type with name Sessions. Now we need to insert and item in Sessions content type using Kendo UI DataSource.

Very first we need to add reference of Everlive as below,

<script src="scripts/everlive.all.min.js"></script>

After adding reference create instance of Everlive as below. You need to pass Everlive application key as parameter while creating instance of Everlive. You will find application key on Everlive portal.

var el = new Everlive('W1286lVOH0DXYZ');

Now you will be amazed seeing how easily you can insert item in Session content type using Kendo UI DataSource. Before creating an item or inserting an item, create Kendo UI DataSource as following.

var sessionDataSource = new kendo.data.DataSource({
 type: 'everlive',
 transport: {
 typeName: 'Sessions'
 },
 schema: {
 model: { id: Everlive.idField }
 }

});

While creating Kendo UI Data Source, we need to set following

• type as everlive
• In transport typeName as content type name. You need to provide name of the content type which data items you want to fetch. In this case we want items of Sessions content type so typeName is Sessions

Once Kendo UI DataSource is created, you need to create item to be inserted in Everlive . So let us go ahead and create item for Sessions content type as following,

var sessionItemToAdd = {
 'Name': 'Cloud',
 'Time': '09:00-10:00',
 'Level': '300',
 'SpeakerName': 'dj',
 'HallName': 'A',
 'Date': '3rd Oct',
 'Day': 'Day 1'

};

Now you have item to be inserted. Next add this item to DataSource using Add method. After adding that call sync() method on DataSource. You can achieve adding and syncing with Everlive server as given in below code,

sessionDataSource.add(sessionItemToAdd );
 sessionDataSource.sync();
 console.log("data inserted");

Putting above discussion all together, below function will add an item in Sessions content type.

function addSessions() {
 console.log("Entering");
 var sessionDataSource = new kendo.data.DataSource({
 type: 'everlive',
 transport: {
 typeName: 'Sessions'
 },
 schema: {
 model: { id: Everlive.idField }
 }

});
 var sessionItemToAdd = {
 'Name': 'Cloud',
 'Time': '09:00-10:00',
 'Level': '300',
 'SpeakerName': 'dj',
 'HallName': 'A',
 'Date': '3rd Oct',
 'Day': 'Day 1'
 };

sessionDataSource.add(sessionItemToAdd);
 sessionDataSource.sync();
 console.log("data inserted");
 }

This is the way you can add an item in Everlive content type. I hope you find this post useful. Thanks for reading.