It will be useful if the grid column state contains the Field parameter if such is specified.

This will make easier mapping the ColumnState entity to the actual column.

I want to customize the appearance of the header of a certain column, and a bit of CSS backgrounds could help, but I can't do this with the HeaderTemplate alone, nor with content in it because of the padding the cells have.

So, I would like the ability to set the CSS class of the header cell of the column.

At the moment, the CollapsedGroups  collection in the grid state is the indexes of the root-level groups that you can collapse. I want to also be able to control the expanded state of nested groups.

ADMIN EDIT:

Ideas I can see are the following, do add your vote and comments on how you expect that to be exposed:

• a form of Id/field in the group descriptor that controls this. Caveat - groups don't generally have such an id and the descriptor does not control the UI, it controls the data.
• an event that provides the level, field name and group value that lets me choose this for every group as it renders. Caveat - might not plug in the state, but if you have a certain business logic for that you can just keep it in that event always, regardless of the grid state, or keep additional information in an application state.
• the current indexes could become recursive (see the image attached below). Caveat: you can't be sure that the next time data loads the data and so the groups will be the same when loading state

it would be helpful to have the ability to set Class attribute for rendered TD.

this would allow for example to set a background color for a column

For example, when I have two levels of grouping, I want to render only the inner footer templates, but not the outer.

While this is possible with some CSS like the snippet below, this does not scale well, and does not work well for arbitrary number of groups

<style>
    .k-group-footer + .k-group-footer {
       display:none;
    }
</style>

Group by the Vacation and Team columns to see the effect

<TelerikGrid Data=@GridData Groupable="true" Pageable="true">
    <GridColumns>
        <GridColumn Field=@nameof(Employee.Name) Groupable="false" />
        <GridColumn Field=@nameof(Employee.Team) Title="Team">
            <GroupFooterTemplate>
                Team group footer
            </GroupFooterTemplate>
        </GridColumn>
        <GridColumn Field=@nameof(Employee.IsOnLeave) Title="On Vacation">
            <GroupFooterTemplate>
                IsOnLeave group footer
            </GroupFooterTemplate>
            </GridColumn>
    </GridColumns>
</TelerikGrid>

@code {
    public List<Employee> GridData { get; set; }

    protected override void OnInitialized()
    {
        GridData = new List<Employee>();
        var rand = new Random();
        for (int i = 0; i < 15; i++)
        {
            GridData.Add(new Employee()
            {
                EmployeeId = i,
                Name = "Employee " + i.ToString(),
                Team = "Team " + i % 3,
                IsOnLeave = i % 2 == 0
            });
        }
    }

    public class Employee
    {
        public int EmployeeId { get; set; }
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public string Team { get; set; }
        public bool IsOnLeave { get; set; }
    }
}

I want to edit the Excel file the grid exports before it gets to the user. For example, to add a sheet with data I want to generate, or to change columns, formats, colors.

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ADMIN EDIT

I have attached to this post an example that shows how you can generate your own exported file so you can customize colors, sheets and so on. It also shows how to cache the DataSourceRequest of the grid so you can extract only the current page or all data, and so you can also apply the current grid sorts/filters and so on to the export. This also lets you add metadata to the sheet such as the current user settings such as filters that resulted in this filter.

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I want to be able to enter numbers and the grid to filter numeric fields too according to those numbers. Enums would be nice too.

**Admin Edit**

The feature request will be researched and evaluated. It contradicts to our datasource filtering logic that relies on the type of the fields. Thus, it is highly possible that we will handle the task through a knowledge base example.

**Admin Edit**

Please add a feature to export the grid to Microsoft Word file

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ADMIN EDIT:

I am attaching a sample to this post that you can use to generate the docx file through the Telerik Document Processing libraries by looping over the data.

You can extend it further (add more fields, refactor so it is more reusable, extract to service,...) and if you would like to export the current grid data, see about implementing the data operations manually through the OnRead event - you can cache the DataSourceRequest object and then run a .ToDataSourceResult() query on the data to get what the grid displays on its current page. An example of a similar approach is available here for a customized excel export.

You can also read more about working with tables in a Word document here to apply more styling options as needed.

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Grid - Import from Clipboard (Excel) when column name matches the first row header

I think it would be a great feature to be able to import copied data from excel into the grid either based on the index of the column or the header row in the clipboard matches the name of the column in Blazor Grid.

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ADMIN EDIT

You can find an example of implementing this and the caveats it brings in the following sample project: https://github.com/telerik/blazor-ui/tree/master/grid/paste-from-excel

This feature requires research on how we could provide it as a built-in feature. So, any feedback on the matter will be appreciated.

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I would like to be able to customize the default format for dates and numbers that the grid has to, for example, use the current UI culture of my app.

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I want to know when the user moves focus to a new row - I intend to use that to select this row and to perform some operations on an adjacent grid.

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ADMIN EDIT

The majority of things are possible through templates right now. You can put in the desired template (editor, row, cell, header, whatever you need to capture events from) and add the desired handler to your own DOM element. Then, you can alter the grid, if needed, through its state. If you need the row data item - it is available in the templates related to the data rows. If you need adjacent rows models - you can get them from the sorted list of grid data when you use its OnRead event - you have the current row and you can get a previous/next one as needed from that list.

That said, I am keeping this item open (status "Unplanned") so we can still gather any feedback and its popularity and what the community thinks, and whether it will be a meaningful addition to the component.

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Hi,

It would be nice to have a property available on a GridColumn where you could indicate that the column should only be visible when you export the data, and not on, screen.

Thanks,

Tom

column virtualization is a great feature for wide table - and we would like to use keyboard navigation with it. 

can both be supported together?

thanks

wei

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when setting a default filter in code the grid does not show any type of indicator that a filter is applied to a column

desiredState = newGridState<Employee>()
            {
                FilterDescriptors = newList<FilterDescriptorBase>()
                {
                    newCompositeFilterDescriptor()
                    {
                        FilterDescriptors = newFilterDescriptorCollection()
                        {
                            newFilterDescriptor() { Member = "Active", Operator = FilterOperator.IsEqualTo, Value = true, MemberType = typeof(bool) }
                        }
 
                    }
                }
            };

 
 
     

Using the Excel Export for Grid creates the Excel file, but on opening it, the columns that contain data are hidden. Unless I unhide the columns, the sprceadsheet looks empty.

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ADMIN EDIT:
One idea to go about this is to expose an event that would allow users to modify the column width values before they get sent for export. The benefit of this approach is that if the columns are resized, the user will receive their current size in the specified unit e.g. rem, em or % and will be able to set the width in px.

Another idea is to default such column widths to some hardcoded value (say, 64px) or even the grid might try to calculate them (which can cause questionable results in stranger settings, but it is an idea - if an event gets exposed you will be able to do that in your application code).

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