Hi,

Pertaining to the original issue regarding disabling the columnMenu the same way like disabling sorting or filtering, please take a look at Alex's answer. 

To those looking for resources regarding data-menu=""false" not functioning as expected from Kendo UI Grid initialized by a table, I wanted to share the following Bug Report and workaround for the issue:

Using the columnMenuInit event, configure the columnMenu based on the data-menu string property:

          function onColumnMenuInit(e){

            //Avaliable Grid columns
            var columns = e.sender.columns;

            //get menuItem inputs
            var inputs =  $(e.container).find("input");

            for(var x = 0; x < columns.length; x++){

              //if the column's menu property is set to false
              if(columns[x].menu == "false"){

                //hide the parent span of the input
                $(inputs[x]).parent("span").hide();
              }
            }
          }

Please take a look at this updated Progress Kendo UI Dojo for a live example of the implementation above.

Regards,
Patrick
Progress Telerik

Hi,

Thank you for your interest in this feature request.

Currently, we can only remove a column from the items of the column menu by setting column.menu to false:

https://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/api/javascript/ui/grid/configuration/columns.menu

The alternative as Robert mentioned is to use JavaScript for the moment until this feature request gains popularity and can be included in the public API:

https://www.telerik.com/forums/turn-off-column-menu-on-certain-columns#jN6DSOh-lEOertnBWkEJHw

Regards,
Alex Hajigeorgieva
Progress Telerik