Set grid editable/uneditable

[Steve]

I apologize if this has been asked before, the forum search didn't seem to turn up the answer.

I am creating a grid with editable=false. Later on, if conditions are satisfied, I want to set editable=true. I haven't been able to find anything in the API, is this even possible in 2012.1.311? Or am I going to have to destroy and recreate the grid?

[Alexander Valchev]

Hi Steve,

I am afraid that this is not supported at present - the editing cannot be enabled/disabled after the grid's initialization. Depending on the editing mode that you are using, you can try to catch the click event of the corresponding buttons and prevent the entering in edit mode. For example:

dataBound: function() {
    $("#grid .k-button.k-grid-edit").click(function(e){
        e.stopPropagation(); //disable entering in edit mode
    })
}

All the best,
Alexander Valchev
the Telerik team

[Steve]

Alexander,

Thanks for the reply. I'm using batch editing so there isn't that particular button to stop, but your suggestion does give me another idea for a workaround. When I am showing the editable grid, I'm preventing certain rows from being edited by immediately closing the edit cell UI based on a field in the row data:

edit: function (e) {
if (e.model.IsReadOnly) {
$('#myGrid').data("kendoGrid").closeCell();
}
} 

I can modify that event so that if we're in a non-editable mode, it always prevents the event from occurring.