[Solved] Hierarchial grid with mass update popup on column header

[Murali]

We have a Flex app that is used internally and has a hierarchial grid with several options including context menu, popup editor on individual columns.
We are writing an app for external customers with limited functionality on the grid. But we need an option to mass update a particular column on the grid, either all rows or selected rows. See the attached png file for current implementation.

Instead of specifying columnMenu:true, we want to open an html template on the grid as model popup. Is there an way to do this on Kendo grid?
Thanks

[Alexander Popov]

Hi Murali,

Although this behavior is not supported out of the box, it could be achieved using a custom solution. For example you can use context menu that pops over the Grid's columns (or column headers) and when the mass update option is selected - open a Window. You can then get the instance of the Grid and the targeted column and perform the mass updated by iterating over all (or the selected) DataSource items. For example:

var items = grid.dataSource.data(); //get all items
for(var i=0; i<data.length; i++){
   items[i].set(field, value);
}

Regards,
Alexander Popov
Telerik