Scenario... My grid has a list of sales people (names, email addresses, etc). I want to assign them to the US, Canada, or both. I envision 2 checkbox columns. At present, I can only use the column.Select() to have Kendo create the checkbox column (along with a "select all" in the header). I'd like to have similar functionality except they can "select all" US, "select all" Cananda, or click both to select all for both countries. The reason for the "select all" is because the person working in the UI may need to assign 1,000 people to one or both countries and I don't want them to have to click that many times.
Are there any other mechanisms to generate multiple checkboxes (plus a "check all" in the header) beyond the column.Select() method?
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The "select" column is used for the built-in selection functionality of the Grid and I have to say that it is not possible to use multiple select columns and add custom logic for them. Nevertheless, you could use template columns and render checkboxes in the column template and the header template for your custom selection. Within the DataBound event, you could get reference to the checkboxes in the header and attach handler for the click event, where you could select the desired rows. An example for the Kendo UI Grid is available in the following HowTo, but the same templates could be used with the MVC helper:
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Konstantin Dikov
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