display a dropdown list when grid cell clicked

[Colin]

Instead of enable the textbox for editing, is there any way to bind a dropdown list, please advise.

Thanks

[Mirco]

Thanks for posting.
This is what i am looking for too.
Hope to get feedback soon as possible.

Cheers

[Rosen]

Hi Mirco,

I'm afraid that this is not possible with current version if the grid. However, we have managed to address this limitation and this will be supported with the next version of the widget.

Greetings,
Rosen
the Telerik team

[Mirco]

Thank for answering.

Any idea about the next release date ?

Thx

Mirco

[Rosen]

Hello Mirco,

There will be a service pack most probably in the following months, however it will be available only for our trial and commercial license holders. 

Regards,
Rosen
the Telerik team

[Leo]

Hi kelin,

You may want to try this as a workaround.

Take a look at my post in this thread:

http://www.kendoui.com/forums/ui/grid/drop-down-list-in-grid.aspx

This is something that I’ve been working on so I hope it helps you.

[Mirco]

I am going to try.
Many Thanks. 

Mirco

[Zachary]

I have gotten this to work in the last major 2011 release as follows with a grid bound to a local json object. So this does not require a table or kendo dropdown list to be created and works fine for basic edit scenario.  In my case I needed a drop down for a language column that contained a list of language culture names

1.   bind my model to the schema like I would any other grid/field LanguageName: { type: 'string', editable: false },
from    schema: {
                        model: {
                            id: 'TranslationTextId',
                            fields: {
                                TranslationTextId: {
                                    editable: false,
                                    nullable: true
                                },
                                Text: { type: 'string', editable: true },
                                LanguageName: { type: 'string', editable: false }, 
                            }
                        }

2. In the column configuration I define the template and then a function (in this case called GetCultureList) that sets my option's selected attribute .
  { field: 'LanguageName', title: 'Language',
                        template:
                        '<select name="LanguageName">#=translation' +  GetCultureList(LanguageName)#</select>'
                    },

[underscore]

Hi Zachary, could you show your GetCultureList() function? Thanks!

[underscore]

Just to add the problem: when a custom function is being called from the template as above, the passed ID is not being resolved, only later when it's being too late for any conditional statement based on the ID, true?