Many of us are wondering (http://www.telerik.com/forums/dynamically-add-new-column) how to add new column to grid.

I imagine it to work as column picker in TeamPulse (http://demos.telerik.com/teampulse-demo/view#backlog)

For now we have two options:
-destroy old grid and create new, but this way we must take care of bindings, event handling by ourselves.
-hide unwanted columns at start and then show them when needed, but this way DOM will have unused elements.

Ideally grid would reconfigure and add DOM for new column.

Ext.JS has this build in (http://jsfiddle.net/marcusschiesser/GvGCX/)

Instead of having to do this or something similar to this ...

function (container, options) {
    $('<input data-text-field="' + options.field + '" ' +
            'class="k-input k-textbox" ' +
            'type="password" ' +
            'data-value-field="' + options.field + '" ' +
            'data-bind="value:' + options.field + '"/>')
            .appendTo(container)
}

add a type "password" to the grid and let the js do it without having to code :)

For string columns especially, the default type of filter someone would want to apply is not the first option in the list. If it's not possible to reorder the items, then it should be possible to select which item is the default. This would prevent users from having to change the filter every single time.

It would be like to setting the Edit Row and Filter Row to support checkbox without ClientTemplate. It is a very very common editor type for boolean field.

On Kendo Grid, It will be nice to use a combination of Server and Client side code for pagination and sorting.

I want to limit the number of rows pulled from the server by 2000 rows. On the screen, the grid can be set to a page size of 20. If the actual rows are less than 2000, there is really no need for the grid to call the server again for paging or sorting

If you are on the last page of a set of data and delete the last item from the page the pager does not reset to the previous page. This seems like an obvious bug to me.

Steps to reproduce:

Go to Grid Demo: http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/grid/editing-inline
Select "Edit this example"
Change the pageSize of the dataSource from 20 to 2
Run the demo
Go to the last page
delete the two items on the page

Result: Grid does not move to previous page and incorrectly displays the item number as higher than the total number of items.

I know it has been rejected and I think it was not given any good reason.  Managing dropdownnlist in datagrid is a pain and just not having pair value/text is missing and using "foreign key columns for this" is not an acceptable answer for me.


It should be a basic type of column, not a template, and show a text but be set as a value because we use the text for translation purpose, so the text cannot be the value. Even with the help from your technical support, when you have many of them in one grid, it's takes a long time to code and maintain. Such a common and basic feature should be with the basic controls of the grid.

Allow the use of a custom filter function for a given grid. operator could be assigned a function to perform the filtering. 
        var filter = {
            field: field,
            operator: function(row, column, filterUi) {
                var fieldValue = row[column.field];
                return matchesArbitratryCriteria(fieldValue);
            },
            value: value,
        };

The current table initialization used in grid is not robust and does not supports many features. The main reason is because _columns function in grid does not leverages existing framework functionality. I propose to slightly modify the existing code responsible for parsing column configuration to use kendo.parseOptions instead of working directly with attributes. You can see my re-implementation of this function at [http://jsbin.com/pihefuva/1].

Based on the examples here (http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/web/grid/editing-custom.html), "incell" editing allows editing a single cell at a time. The edit mode is activated upon a single click in the cell.

I would like to have a way to combine this with "cell" selectable mode, e.g. like this?
* A single click on a cell selects the cell and fires the "change" event.
* A double click on a cell activates the edit mode for the cell.

Hi, Please refer to the following forum for more detail about the problem and my suggestion:
http://www.telerik.com/forums/grid-row-navigation-by-keyboard#ncKqVMBBqUe5ZymNXwpFgg

Summary: I think in Grid widget, there should be difference between selectable="cell" and selectable="row" (for keyboard Up&Down Arrow navigation). or perhaps you want to add another choice, example selectable: "row cell" (to replace the current setting for "row") and the selectable = "row", just select the row not cell and also DO NOT go to grid header!
I believe it's good that you enhance/solve this shortcoming inside the Grid design, because developer like us who has already decided row selection (selectable: "row") during design-time, it doesn't make sense that still the keyboard navigation is at the cell level, isn't it?

Thank you.

I have a grid with Column Employee Name and i have Employee names as John and john. As you see the names are same but case sensitive is different. When i group the column Employee Name. The Kendo grid treats it as separate values.

There is an option to freeze the left most column of the Kendo Grid by setting the lockable property.
But this is limited to the Left Hand Side columns only and there are no ways suggested to freeze the Right Most columns.

When performing Edit on a real-time grid, hide edit button to prevent simultaneous editing and data overwrite. 

There was a similar solution previous to signalR integration, http://www.telerik.com/forums/using-kendoui-grid-with-signalr#-3DZMT4HHE-rOWdEf_1mgQ

But with SignalR enabled grid, this could all be  built-in.

I have a list of entities with a large set of fields, but I don't want to load and display all of them in the grid. Entities have also a couple of complex properties which are displayed via checkbox lists.

Though, I want them to appear when editing a single entity.

For now, I'm using custom "create" and "edit" pages, but it would be great to have an "url" option for popup editing. This url would return some html (MVC partial view in my case) which would be rendered in the popup window.

The command button set should be configurable on a per row basis.  This can be accomplished by accepting a lambda function for the column.command configuration attribute.  Presently only a string or array is accepted

Add a property to the grid or the grid row template for setting the max and min height of rows in the grid. If the content on a cell exceeds the available space when the max row height has been reached then show a "More..." button/link in the lower right corner of a cell - if the user clicks this then display the full contents of the cell in an overlay or otherwise show the full contents in a tooltip that shows when you hover over the truncated cell.

The refresh button availability should be indepent from the grid being pageable. The user may want an updatable grid without having page navigator.

When scrolling data in a grid using the virtualization scrolling option, the query to fetch the next section of data will occur twice. It does not happen for every query, but it does happen all the time regardless of scrolling fast or slow.

In lieu or as part of select-all capability:

Expose a way to retrieve the filtered set of data (or keys) in the grid and other filterable controls.

In other words, when a user has applied their own filters, there is currently no method to retrieve the filtered set across the entire dataset. That makes implementing a select-all button a bit tricky as you have to either select all on the current page (view) or the entire unfiltered dataset and then apply the filter yourself.