Using the bower package and its gulp "custom" task to build a custom distribution, if I include the grid widget, it doesn't seem to automatically include the "filtercell" widget, so grids with filtering will throw an error due to the missing code. The Grid source defines a bunch of dependencies including "kendo.filtermenu", "kendo.excel", etc. Shouldn't "kendo.filtercell" be a dependency as well, or is there some reason it has to be included separately?
Someone brought this up a year or two ago, but over in the Issues area of Core on github, but it was closed as a Pro problem. I don't know if it was ever raised here. I can include filtercell in the argument list to "gulp custom" if necessary, but I was just curious.
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Note that gulp custom does not include optional features (the one that are not needed the component to run). As you mentioned they should be included separately.
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Pavlina
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But the question is why filtercell is an optional feature while 'kendo.pdf', "kendo.excel" etc. are inclusions? Perhaps I'm wrong, but I didn't think the grid would fail to run without those (unless one turned on PDF or Excel capabilities)? I've seen a number of reminders that the gulp/custom builder does NOT allow leaving out subcomponents of things like Grid, unlike the download builder.
I see that "filtercell" has its own requirements (widgets like "autocomplete" and "datepicker"), and perhaps it would be undesirable to have these as direct requirements of Grid, so that "filtercell" is a different type of "optional" from the others? But anyone converting from kendo.all to building kendo.custom would only discover this by trial and error.