Hi Mike,

Thank you for your input! We always appreciate the valuable feedback from our customers, as it helps us better understand how our product can support different use cases.

While we see how this feature would be beneficial for your specific scenario, we’ve had to take a broader perspective. The majority of the requests that we have received so far actually target the ability to automatically display Tooltips only for the columns whose titles are not fully visible.

Our goal is to ensure that the product meets the diverse needs of our entire customer base. Showing Tooltips for all columns will create challenges and will complicate the process of addressing other use cases. It’s important for us to maintain a solution that works effectively across all scenarios - of cource, there are always two sides of the coin, so we are trying to take the more requested option into consideration first.

Thank you again for your understanding and for being a valued customer!

Regards,
Nadezhda Tacheva
Progress Telerik

Hi Mike,

Thank you for proposing this feature!

We have discussed it with the team and while it does seem like a valid enhancement, we have some concerns.

We have determined that the effort required to implement this feature outweighs its overall impact. As a result, we will be prioritizing initiatives that deliver greater value. An additional concern of ours is that we have to determine when to show a Tooltip (we have received requests to show it only for the columns with a long title that show ellipsis) on each render and after each resizing operation which may result in worsening the Grid performance.

Having the above in mind, I have updated the status of the item to "Declined".

Indeed, our current recommendation is to use Header Templates to add Tooltips. I understand that having to declare a template for every column in all of your Grid instances may be a substantial workload. The general recommendation is to eliminate potential repetitive code as much as possible. This actually applies to any customization that you may want to make for multiple Grids.

For that purpose, you may consider:

• Creating reusable Grid Columns with Templates.
• Encapsulating the TelerikGrid in your custom component, so you can reuse it across the app but manage its configuration in one place.

If you still prefer not to use Header Templates, you may consider a solution similar to this one: Add a title property to elements with text-overflow: ellipsis.

Regards,
Nadezhda Tacheva
Progress Telerik