Disable or remove sortable capability on column with rebuilding entire grid.

[Grant]

Hi there,

Is it possible to disable columns (Or at least remove their sort functionality so when they are clicked) without having to redraw the entire grid?

I have a grid with sorting initially enabled, then when a button is clicked I want to move into a "design mode" and therefore need to remove the sortable functionality (or at least stop the event firing when a column is clicked which causes a read of the datasource). 

Is there any way to do this? I managed to disable filtering by hiding the filter icon but can't seem to disable sorting in any way...

Thanks in advance!

Rob

[Alexander Valchev]

Hello Grant,

This is not supported out of the box, but to achieve it I can suggest the following approaches:

• hook up to the click event of ".k-grid-header .k-link" and stop the propagation
  

  $(".k-grid-header .k-link").click(function(e) {
      e.stopPropagation();
  });

• prevent the click by covering the ".k-grid-header " with a transparent <div> element. In this forum thread you will find an example and more information about this solution.

I hope this helps.

Greetings,
Alexander Valchev
the Telerik team