Friday 19 April 2013

Kendo Grid: Ajax Binding while parsing Server side properties. Is this possible?


In a nutshell yes. I am currently migrating a website and I was in need of presenting data inside a Kendo Grid depending on the state of a server variable. There are different ways to achieve results, however my case was a bit peculiar. Let me first explain the goal here: We aim to be able to use .ClientTemplate templates in our Grid that actually render html based on the state of Server variables.

You might ask, why not just use the server side .Template? Simply enough, because it does not work with Ajax requests in the dataset. Please correct me if I am wrong, but no matter how hard I have tried, it never worked. So I came up with a workaround.