Custom editors are great!  But often when you have a custom editor, you want to restrict data entry to only use that editor, and not free-form typing in the cell.  You can prevent free-form typing in the cell by disabling the cell, but then the custom editor button is no longer available.

Suggestion is to still show custom editor button even if cell is disabled, perhaps with an additional setting; so that you could optionally not show the custom editor if the cell is disabled, since often a disabled cell should prevent any kind of modification.

Can the Spreadsheet widget be updated to initialize a sheet that is bound to a datasource when the datasource is an empty object?  

Generally, when a sheet is bound to a datasource, it is for the purpose of editing data, creating new rows and updating/deleting existing rows.  If a datasource comes back empty, the sheet isn't initialized.  So there are no column headers, which can be confusing to users when they don't know what data to enter in which columns.  The other thing is that the sheet itself is not fully initialize so that even if we assign column headers programmatically, when users start entering data, the UI becomes unresponsive and generates a javascript error: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'indexOf' of undefined
    at r.set (kendo.all.js:4586)
    at r.set (kendo.all.js:4760)
    at kendo.all.js:127702

I checked out the feature request provisions on your site. Since I'd like to include photos with my description, I'm hoping that it is okay that I send this to you for forwarding on to the appropriate audience.

My feature request involves the spreadsheet control in Kendo's JQuery controls

The request is for an attribute to be added to a cell of a spreadsheet which can be used by JQuery to associate the HTML dom element with the spreadsheet's javascript model. Here is why:


In needing to place things in the cells of spreadsheets (such as images and my own custom controls) as can be seen in my images 1 and 2, it is necessary to know which div.k-spreadsheet-cell corresponds with a kendo javascript spreadsheet cell. As a work around, I have given my custom controls an index number. In the kendo javascript object, I set the cell's background color to the same value as that index. This gave me two benefits: 1) it put a characteristic on the cell's div object that could identify the cell; 2) it rendered the cell even if it had no content--this is particularly important.

In my image 4, you can see the background color attribute of a cell div. In image 3, you can see my collection of custom controls. Each of my div.custom-control has a control_index property. I have a routine that runs periodically to reckon the location and size of each control whose background color is set to a value matching one of my cell's control indices. Once located, the controls are laid down onto their respective cells at their appropriate size (or made invisible if the target cell is scrolled off of the container).

This work around contains a lot of painful overhead. For instance, when a spreadsheet is first rendered, I have to traverse the div.k-spreadsheet-cell elements to check their background color attributes. If they qualify, a css class must be placed on the cell so that a black cell isn't presented in the time that it takes to reckon and position my custom controls.

If there were a 'tag' attribute that could be added to a cell's javascript model and that tag was ascribed to the div.k-spreadsheet-cell element (AND make the element render even if it is otherwise trivial), this operation would be a lot easier. I think that I'm not the only one who would like to take some control over the dom objects of the spreadsheet control. 

I would be happy to discuss this further with anybody who is interested.

Thanks,

Doug

By default the items in filter are in random order. Can we sort the items in ascending order by default.

Dear Concerned,

1. Launch https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/spreadsheet/index

2. Open attached MultipleSheetsRowHeightIssue.xlsx

3. Please notice there are 3 sheets with default row height 20, 30, 40 respectively (you can check in MS Excel)

4. Now Click export, and open the exported file again 

5. Now we have an issue here - all sheets set to default row height to 40. (It seems that it is setting the last sheet's default row height to all sheets)

Its severe issue, please share a fix or at least provide some workaround.

 

Make Spreadsheet xlsx import failure more user friendly. Currently, when xlsx import fails, the UI thread is blocked and the user needs to reload the page in the browser. The import operation instead could process the file in the background and could return meaningful message without blocking the UI.

1. Save Excel workbook to folder on server (the Excel file can be re-purposed in many ways)
2. Better ways to send sheet data back to controller ... more JSON serialization options, csv, etc.

add indent property to spreadsheet cells to closer match excel

Show/Hide Column & Row Header

Currently only the global culture is used to parse dates. This behavior differs from Excel as I can enter 1/1/19 to parse to 1/1/2019.

I would like the widget to format using the chosen date culture (mm/dd/yyyy), but parse in an optional way, such as mm/dd/yy.

In percent-formatted cells, Excel will place a '%' as the user types. This allows 50% to be entered as '50'.

Steps (excel and kendo):

1. Format a cell as percent

2. Enter 50

Excel shows "50.00%". The actual value is .5

Kendo widget shows "5000.00%". The actual value is 50

add a double line border single or multiple cell.

Allow additional control over what a user can undo/redo, or a clearer way to control the undo/redo stack.  

Right now, users cannot undo more complex custom logic - i.e. a user deletes the content of a single cell which triggers code for us to clear the content of every cell in that row.  When a user then attempts a single undo via keyboard shortcut, it cannot undo this more complex chain of events.

Need a default cell format, in addition to rowHeight and columnWidth including:
- font size,
- font-family,
- font weight
- (see other toolbar options)

Default cell format would set the default values for all cells and toolbar options.

In Kendo UI spreadsheet when wrap cell text it currently split text in middle of word. Change so that splits on white space

Ability to dynamically bound the DropDown editor to an array of objects 

like this: http://docs.handsontable.com/0.18.0/demo-grouping-and-ungrouping.html

Can we have a facility to copy a cell and paste it to a selection. (i.e paste to multiple cells)

On excel, you can filter merged rows. On the kendo spreadsheet widget, filtering on merged rows is not possible. It would be a very useful feature for us. 

Also worth noting is that if you convert an excel file to JSON using Telerik RadSpreadProcessing, and load the kendo widget with the JSON, the widget displays a filter icon but clicking it loads a non-functioning filter. Wouldn't it make more sense to load with a message along the lines of 'You loaded a spreadsheet with filters applied to merged rows, which is not supported in this widget'. Otherwise it's quite confusing to our users.