[Solved] Get GridColumn Title in GridColumnState

[Aditya]

I need to display Grid Metadata .. for each column in the grid ... display the Title along with the mapped internal field

For example for the following GridColumn

<GridColumn Field=@nameof(Orders.KeyID) Title="Order ID" />

I will need to display that 

Order ID is mapped to Orders.KeyID field

The issue is TelerikGrid GridColumnState has Field property but does not have Title property.

Will it be possible for Telerik to include Title in GridColumnState?

[Dimo]

Hi Aditya,

The Grid column state contains information that users can change, such as sorting state, filtering state, column order, column width, etc. The only exception is the column Id, which is the identifier. We also have a feature request to include the column Field in the Grid state, which can make more sense than the Title. The column titles are not subject to user control, so that's why they are not included in the Grid state. Moreover, column titles depend on the localization and business decisions, so they are not reliable for application logic.

If you want to reuse the Grid column metadata, then populate the column titles from a Dictionary or some other collection, so that you can map the titles to something else, for example, column Id or column index in the Grid declaration.

In general, you can rely on the fact that the column order in the state matches the column order in the Grid declaration. Check this KB article: Get Grid Column Index, Width and Visibility from the Grid State

Regards,
Dimo
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