The Grid does not currently support MVVM bindings for events deeper than one level of nesting.  Please fix this.

We have a scenario where we have a grid that can contain many types of data in a single column.  This includes numeric values and string values which could be valid hyperlinks.  Our request is for automatic detection when a string matches a hyperlink syntax to automatically create it as a link in the Grid data cell itself rather than simply appearing as a string value.  Thus the user would be able to just click on the hyperlink rather than copying and pasting the contents of the cell into their browser search bar.

I would like to see the ability to have more than one template for edit AND update on grid pop ups.  Currently I can set the template file for the editable option but that is also used for the create when doing a pop up modal.

If an Ajax validation (sync or async) is called by a custom validation, kendo grid navigation should move to next or previous cell by pressing once tab or shift + tab key, if it's valid -as normally- or cancel edit if it is not.
+info in this thread:
http://www.telerik.com/forums/ajax-validation-with-grid

This currently causes the locked columns to not line up with the rest of the grid.  See http://dojo.telerik.com/eZasA/2 and http://www.telerik.com/forums/column-locking-row-heights-not-matching#KsWBJy4lGkafpkwZxUYRVw

Add support for flexible width to columns on a "weight" basis (like XAML grid).

Ps. I'm writting the example in MVC wrappers because I'm not familiar with the javascript initialization but I am posting this in Kendo UI Web category because it's a core feature and assume it would be implemented accordingly in every wrappers without having to specify them.

@(Html.Kendo()
  .Grid<Employee>()
  .Name("EmployeesGrid")
  .Columns(cols =>
  {
    cols.Bound(o => o.FirstName).Width("*");
    cols.Bound(o => o.LastName).Width("2*");
    cols.Bound(o => o.Initials).Width("Auto");
    cols.Bound(o => o.JobTitle).Width("200"); // Or 200px
  }))

-Assuming the grid is 900 pixel wide and the longest Initials (including header?) is 100 pixel
-Ignoring the lost horizontal space in padding, margin, borders, scrollbars and anything else

This example would give the following result:
FirstName column: 200px
LastName column: 400px
Initials column: 100px
JobTitle column: 200px

You guys do such a great job of allowing us to extend your product for our needs. And I know that you have recently added the Search Panel to allow us to perform a search against the dataSource. However, I would like to put that search box/button somewhere else completely on my page.

I've been able to get around this by using the code in kendo.grid.js to use my own click/keypress events to invoke the filter based on the new search options.

configureSearch(inputSelector: string, clickSelector: string) {
    const searchFn = this.search;
    if (this.grid.options.search == null) {
        throw "search field(s) not set for grid.";
    }

    const inputElement = $(inputSelector).keypress(function (this: HTMLElement, e) {
        const keycode = (e.keyCode ? e.keyCode : e.which);
        if (keycode === 13) {
            searchFn($(this));
        }
    });
    $(clickSelector).click(e => {
        searchFn(inputElement);
    });
}
private search(inputElement: JQuery<HTMLElement>) {
    const options = this.grid.options;
    const dsOptions = this.dataSource.options as kendo.ui.GridScrollable;  // HACK: dataSource.options isn't really a GridScrollable, but it's similar
    let searchFields: string[] | any = options.search ? options.search.fields : null;
    let expression: kendo.data.DataSourceFilters = {
        filters: [],
        logic: "or"
    };
    const value = inputElement.val();
    if (!searchFields) {
        searchFields = getColumnsFields(options.columns);
    }
    // NOTE: Thankfully we don't use endless
    if (dsOptions.endless) {
        dsOptions.endless = null;
        //(this as any)._endlessPageSize = this.dataSource.options.pageSize;
    }
    if (value) {
        for (let i = 0; i < searchFields.length; i++) {
            expression.filters.push({
                field: searchFields[i],
                operator: "contains",
                value: value
            });
        }
    } else {
        expression = {};
    }
    this.dataSource.filter(expression);

    // from Telerik:
    function leafColumns(columns: kendo.ui.GridColumn[]): kendo.ui.GridColumn[] {
        /* Hiding ... go see Telerik source code */
    }
    function getColumnsFields(columns: kendo.ui.GridColumn[]): string[] {
        /* Hiding ... go see Telerik source code */
    }
}

Can we please get support for multi-column headers when using Kendo Grid 'Initialization from Table'. We need to be able to display the grand total at the top and have the row fixed. So the only way i thought to achieve this is to included it in the header.

Support custom attributes for Kendo grid
When kendo grid is applied to an html table, all custom attributes that have been applied to rows, cells or data within cells is lost.  It would be great if you could preserve these.  I realize the challenge in distinguishing between what is considered a *custom* attribute.  Perhaps enforce specific naming conventions and support preservation of those.  Perhaps anything starting with "data-" is preserved?

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 :)

Hello,
I'm working on a project that contains a Grid.
Some of the column names contain special tags (like: minus, space, dot etc.)

My request is that you please add functionality that supports special tags.



By the way, there is already a possible partial workaround this problem:
http://www.telerik.com/forums/field-name-with-space-and-other-than-numeric-creating-issues-to-load-the-grid

HOWEVER, if I add filterable property, the grid crushes and shows an error message:
Uncaught TypeError: e.charAt is not a function
Please see example:
http://dojo.telerik.com/@DUKEiLL/UbeNe

Kindly add this functionality that supports special tags also WITH FILTER.

Thanks,
Daniel.

We are not using an editable grid for this scenario.  The Kendo Grid needs to have its existing filter and sort cleared which should not result in two unnecessary reads to the server and then do a read on the datasource to get the newly added row.  We then return the data from the server in descending order by Id so the new row is at the top of the grid and selected.  If the sort for a default view and add are the same, no issues, but when they are not, the work around is complex.  What are the options and how can we make this simple task simpler to code and maintain?

We have implemented custom 'search' functionality for Kendo grids, which uses column filtering 'behind the scenes'.  Without a hacky workaround, we are having a problem where modifying the filters list behind the scenes will trigger the filter indicator on the columns. It would be great if there was some kind of 'silent' filtering that we could add for this instead of having to write a completely custom query for searching.

By Default the Grid filters for text columns only do the following comparisons; Equal, Contains, Starts, Ends (& Not's)

We are missing: Greater Than, Less Than, GE & LE.
Given the alphabet is ordered, it is reasonable & desirable to add these 4 comparisons to text as well as numeric & date columns. 

This empowers a filter like (Surname >= "L" AND Surname < "O")  so we can find all customers with Names starting with L, M & N

When "Clear Filter" in grid column filtermenu is clicked,grid's dataSource's filter method is called even though the grid is actually not filtered with that field yet. eg. Load this page http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/grid/remote-data-binding and directly click clear filter of any column field. It'll query the remote data. I don't want this behavior. Because the grid is not filtered by that field yet.

We have the grid data-source and the headers bound to the members of the data-source data .
So the grid header on sort pass the data-field to the server .There should be option to change the header option and the data-field .

Cause we might send a VM  of the navigational property to client side and the grid on header click should send original data-field then the VM property

We use the Kendo Grid with a DataSource connected to an OData service. We also use the OOB Kendo Grid functionality to hide columns in the UI (column.hidden = true). Through testing we found out that the Kendo grid does not use the OData option of selecting specific columns for retrieval. The grid will request all columns for a table, which leads to overhead in the amount of data sent from the server to the client. We sometimes have tables with 50 columns, for which only 10 columns are shown.

When grid column is hidden template code is still being executed. For large data sets with many hidden columns this makes grid scroll slower than is necessary...
{ id: 'Artist', title: Columns.ARTIST, field: Columns.ARTIST, width: '100px', hidden: true,
	template: function (dataItem) //this gets executed even when column is hidden. 
	{
		return someMethodToDetermineArtrist(dataItem);
	}
}

When using a template for Grid PDF export, usage of AngularJS scope variables should be possible, e.g. to customize the title.

Grid sorting needs to sort Enum by text, not by their numeric undelaying value. Or at least it should be an option what to sort by.