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Local Data Operations

Updated on Mar 4, 2026

The KendoKendoReact Data Grid enables you to page, filter, sort and group the data locally, or utilize its built-in data-processing mechanism:

Manual Data Operations
Auto-Processing the Data

Manual Data Operations

To setup local data operations:

Set a value inside the state that will hold the current paging, filtering, sorting and grouping parameters. Not all are required, only the ones used in the Grid instance.

jsx

const initialDataState: State = {
    sort: [{ field: "code", dir: "asc" }],
    take: 10,
    skip: 0,
    group: [{
        field: "CategoryID"
    }]
};
...
const [dataState, setDataState] = React.useState<State>(initialDataState);

Pass the current data state to the Grid.
jsx
```
<Grid
    {...dataState}
```
Use the onDataStateChange event to handle all data operations from a single place. The event data provides the combined state of the Grid including paging, sorting, filtering and grouping parameters. With server operations, these parameters can be sent to the server to process the data there.
jsx
```
onDataStateChange={(e: GridDataStateChangeEvent) => {
    setDataState(e.dataState);
    setDataResult(process(products, e.dataState));
}}
```

Use the process method of the DataQuery library which will automatically process the data based on the current data state.

jsx

const [dataResult, setDataResult] = React.useState<DataResult>(process(products, dataState));
...
<Grid
    data={dataResult}

The following example shows the Grid with paging, sorting and filtering enabled:

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When the data state from the onDataStateChange event or the initial state is set to the Grid, no further values for skip, take, filter, sort or group should be added, because they will already be included in the State. When the data property of the Grid is populated through the process helper method, the total property should not be set manually, because it will be part of the returned object.

Auto-Processing the Data

The KendoReact Data Grid provides a mechanism to enable built-in data-processing which takes care of the filter, sort, page and group operations internally. To enable this feature, set the autoProcessData property to true.

jsx

<Grid data={products} autoProcessData={true} />