Show only certain columns upon initialization but allow users to add them in column menu

[Bryan]

I have a grid whose datasource contains about 20 items. 

I would like to open the view with some default column (say five) and then allow the user to make a selection from the column menu.

Cannot see that there is a way to do this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Bryan

[Stefan]

Hello Bryan,

This can be achieved by using the columns.menu configuration of the Kendo UI Grid. This configuration will allow the user to customise which columns to be displayed in the Grid view:

http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/api/javascript/ui/grid#configuration-columns.menu

In addition, if you want to show only some of the columns by default, use the columns.hidden configuration of the Grid to hide specific columns programmatically:

http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/api/javascript/ui/grid#configuration-columns.hidden

Let me know if need additional information on this matter.

Regards,
Stefan
Telerik by Progress

 

 

[Bryan]

Thanks that works great.