I suggest adding a FieldExpression property to the GridColumn so a developer would not need to create view models and templates for simple transformations of the existing model's properties. The field expression would be used for filtering and sorting as well. Its type would be Func<T, object> or Expression<Func<T, object>>.

   <TelerikGrid Data="@Persons">
            <GridColumns>
                <GridColumn FieldExpression="@(p => p.FirstName + " " + p.LastName)" />
            </GridColumns>
        </TelerikGrid>

Right now you can create a template in the grid to display text from a list based on the foreign key in the grid data. For example, if your database has a table user list and a table role. The Role table has an integer Id primary key column and a text Description column. The user table has a foreign key integer column that is the Role Id. You can bring all the data over when you call up the data (flattening the data) or you can just bring over the foreign key integer value for the role and then create templates.

The situation is described here:

https://docs.telerik.com/blazor-ui/knowledge-base/grids-foreign-key

When you do not flatten the data, you would need to retrieve the role collection and then reference that data in templates in the grid. You need a template for the grid itself, a template for filtering, and a template for the grouping. Maybe more that I am not finding?

What would be great is if you could simply set the foreign key collection for the column and not have to create any templates. You would have to also set what the Id and display text fields are on the collection also so the grid would know what data to use for finding and displaying the desired data. You could require a standard collection with standard field names and then we would have to project the values into it from our other collections using linq.

If a developer changes the structure of the grid in a new release, such as adding or removing columns, the restore can have very unexpected results.

We get around this by storing a version number with the grid and incrementing that number when we change the grid columns.  If the version number on the grid does not match the version number stored with the state, we don't restore it.

We would like to see this be more of an automatic feature of the grid.

Compare the columns in the saved state with the columns in the Grid declaration. You may need to change the way the Grid columns are declared, according to the the linked documentation. If there is inconsistency between the two collections, strip the column information from the saved state before restoring it.  (This was suggested by Dimo from Telerik in a support ticket)

An alternative would just be to throw away that state when it can't be safely restored.

It is impractical to set the grid columns to fixed width. I'll explain with example:

I have grid with 4 columns. The grid should have width 100%.

- Column 1: short text, 10-15 characters. I need this one to auto width to content.

- Column 2: checkbox, also auto-width to header title.

- Column 3: free text that may wrap on multiple lines. I need this column to use all available horizontal space so it will push the 4th column to the very right.

- Column 4: button. auto-width to either header title or button width, whichever is wider.

The auto-width feature is already requested: Autofit column widths on data load (telerik.com) but I don't see a feature request to handle the Column 3 scenario.

Our application has, on many pages, complex business logic to enable or disable specific cells based upon the viewing mode, the user's capabilities, the type of data in the row, etc.   If a cell is to be disabled, we also want to change the background color..  This is easily accomplished with the OnCellRender property.

However, we cannot enable/disable specific cells within a column without creating a column template with conditional logic.  And so, in all our grids, EVERY column has to have a template, just for that trivial function.  And now we have business logic smeared across both the razor page and the code page. 

A template should be required only if you are doing something unusual or exceptional.  Setting a cell to be enabled or disabled is completely routine, and one should not have to create a template just for that.

If you would add a property such as OnCellEnable, to override the column Enabled property on a per-cell basis, it would be extremely useful and would eliminate the need for literally hundreds of templates.

Thanks

Using OnRowDrop works fine but there is no configuration possible to set the column at the end of the grid.

Of course it's a personnal taste but I like to have the all the actions buttons on the right side

In Grid with Filter Menu, I want to trigger the Filter button on Enter press while the focus is still on the filter input.

Currently, it is possible to fire filtering from keyboard only if you tab through the Filter Menu elements to focus the Filter button and then press Enter.

Currently, when you open a ColumnMenu, to expand its SubMenus (for example, Filter, Column chooser) you need to additionally click on the corresponding button.

I'd like to have these SubMenus initially expanded when the ColumnMenu is opened.

Hi,

Please lunch your demo on mobile, and try resizing a column it is very hard or impossible to do it.

Isn't possible to make resizing more pixel sensible around the separator for instance 10 pixels, and add AUTO FIT column/columns in column menu.  

Best regards,

Hi,

Is it possible to use ENTER key to validate a popup filter ? instead of mouse.

Use a shortcut to open filter pop of focused column (cell). Ctrl+F or Ctrl+F3...

Yours,

Hi,

Is it possible to add a sub menu, in column menu so that the end user can add an aggregate operation (Sum, average...) on any column he wants and the foot panel will be automatically displayed or hidden.

Yours,

If a Grid column is bound to a nullable bool field and some of the data source records have null values for that field they are not displayed, the Grid cells appear empty.

It would be nice if the Grid displays some text for the null values, for example just "null".

There should be a way to provide the Format for filtering of DateTime columns.
If a DateTime column has the format "dd.MM.yyyy" filtering for "EQUALS 01.01.2021" does not show lines with the timestamp "01.01.2021 01:00" but the user would expect to see this line.

Regards,
René

For example in the following demo:

https://demos.telerik.com/blazor-ui/grid/custom-filter-menu

If I first filter "38" by "Size" and then open the second filter menu "Product Name", I see all the product names in the pop-up, not only the previously filtered by "Size" names. I want to see in the second filter pop-up only the filtered names by "Size".

It will be nice to have this grid filter out-of-box, so you don't have to scroll to unwanted values not part of the first filter.

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As a possible workaround, you can use the Filter Menu Template:

It allows you to change the data for the filter menu.