It would be nice to have the progress when exporting the grid to excel so that the user knows that something is happening.

When we have a Grid with Resizable Columns we may need some of them to be non-resizable (ex. a column containing only status icons).
There are work around and customizations:

Column Resize - Min Width on Resize
http://www.telerik.com/forums/column-resize---min-width-on-resize

but I believe it will be more handy to define requested behavior as a property of the specific column (ex. in row template).

Also, for non resizable columns the user should not even take a resize handle when going on a non resizable column boundary instead of try to resize and when the user leaves the resize handle the column is bouncing back (restoring) the minimum width defined.

Regards,

Thomas

Currently you can clone the Pager to make it appear both on Top/Bottom. This should be configurable so that you can have in on top of the grid or the bottom of grid or both

showColumn() and hideColumn() is great, but it would be nice if we could pass multiple columns to the methods (maybe as an array).

It's extremely slow if I create a loop and call show/hideColumns(x) multiple times.

This would ideally apply to any grid component (Kendo Grid and TreeList).

When performing a grid refresh, the grid re-renders the all the grid rows. 
I think it would be very efficient to have a choice to render specific, changed rows. 
This is valuable if the grid has many items (200 items for example).

Hi, we use the grid "toolbar" property.  But, we found that the documentation of the kendoToolBar "standalone" offers more possibilities, like adding a type "separator", groups, toggle, ...

My question is:
When I create my grid, is it possible to get a reference to its containing kendoToolBar (if it's a complete kendoToolBar ?), that allow to add more complex items.

Something like: 

var kgrid = $('#grid1').kendoGrid({toolbar: [...]}).data("kendoGrid").

var kToolbar = $('#grid1 .k-grid-toolbar').data("kendoToolBar") // or kgrid._secret_property?

kToolbar.add({type: "separator"})

I tried that, but the kToolbar is undefined.

Is it possible that you include a way to resize rows on a grid like we have the option to resize columns?

My application has a default row height retrieved from database, we do not let the content to overflow this row height. 
But instead we want to give the user the option to manually resize the row to see the full text content.

This row resizing, though it is done only on one row would affect all the rows currently shown.

Kendo grid doesn't have in-built functionality to prevent row selection based on some condition.
One way is to remove css class "k-state-selected".
But i think there should be something like "changing" event which will be called before "change" event.
In that event developer write code and can cancel "change" event.
Or 
Boolean property something like "enabled" at row level (or cell level for cell selection) .

Allow using kendo templates in columns.attributes for example

<div id="grid"></div>
<script>
$("#grid").kendoGrid({
  columns: [ {
    field: "name",
    title: "Name",
    attributes: {
      "data-id": "#:data.id#",
      "data-clientid": "#:data.clientId#",
    }
  } ],
  dataSource: [ { id:1, name: "Jane Doe", clientId:"#223" }, { id:2, name: "John Doe", clientId:"#354"  }]
});
</script>

When I bind a change event to the grid it will fire each time I click on the row, even if it is the same row.  So the selected row is not actually changing, but the event keeps firing anyways.  The same thing happens if I programmatically select the row using the select method.

I would rather the change event only fire when when the selection has actually changed rather than on every re-selection.

Otherwise, you might as well call the event "onSelect" rather than "change".

For extra points, it would be cool if the event received a reference to the previous row that was selected.

When the grid is grouped, the grouping column is visible with the same values in each cell of each group. Looks weird and confusing.

How can we accomplish more efficient look and hide the grouping column?  http://demos.devexpress.com/aspxgridviewdemos/GroupingSorting/Grouping.aspx 

Reference article:
http://www.kendoui.com/forums/ui/grid/how-to-hide-the-column-the-grid-is-grouped-by-additional-grouping-questions.aspx

I want to disable/hide the columnMenu the same way like disabling sorting or filtering...
it is not supported the same way as disabling sorting or filtering but only with some Javascript which is not a good solution and not consistent

Only two specific things that I've found lacking: 1) There doesn't appear to be any functionality for Kendo UI (jQuery) that allows for easily adding new values to a multi-select, which the Telerik RadComboBox appears to have. (E.g., for an email "to" field, selecting from existing contacts or adding a new address.) 2) The responsiveness (cell-phone-friendliness) of the Kendo UI Grid is extremely lacking, specifically if allowing for multiple rows selection. (Namely, trying to scroll down the grid instead selects the rows you swipe over, so you're unable to scroll down to see rows off screen.)

The grid does not have a auto generated Serial Number or Row number column built in. Although this functionality can be custom built, but I feel this is a basic thing and when you have to use the grid in different places in your program, then duplicating the same code for a simple functinoality sounds over killing and maintenance overhead.

The existing configuration(filterable.extra), can only support 1 or 2 input from the UI. It would be great if multiple filter criterion input from the grid UI will be supported in the coming releases.

In the kendo grid, on setting the focus on the groupable button and pressing the enter key to change the sorting order, the focus moves to the start of the page. This is a accessibility concern for users who rely only on keyboard for navigation.


They need to begin 'TAB'ing from the start again after selecting an option on the grid groupable button.

Right now there are two options for sorting, single and multi-column. We would very much like to use the multisort version, however our users fail to understand the functionality. We suggest a new setting, "ctrl-multisort":

Single-sort when clicking and multi-sort when ctrl-clicking, similair to most desktop grid controls.

The  two grid tables are created for locked columns work.  The .k-grid-content-locked element is used for columns which are locked, while the .k-grid-content element holds the scrollable content. Due to this behaviours functionalities like Tabbing become complex task to achieve.

I know it is possible to show/hide columns through the column menu, but there is something odd about being able to hide one column from another column's menu. Alternative is to implement something yourself and use the API to show/hide a column, this seems like something that should be an option in the grid. I am imagining a column chooser button (perhaps in the top left header) that opens up a list of checkboxes similar to what you see in the column menu.