Disabling column menu for specific column in Kendo UI Grid

Question

Is it possible to disable column menu for specific column in Kendo UI Grid? And if it is, how it should be done?

Answer 1

Out of the box you can only exclude the column from being shown/hidden through the column menu (i.e. there wont be a checkbox defined for that column which you can check/uncheck). To do so you should use the menu option when defining your column. e.g.

    jQuery("#Grid").kendoGrid({
    "columns": [{
        "title": "Person ID",
        "menu": false, //this way
        "field": "PersonID" 
    },
    {
        "field": "Name",
        "encoded": true
    },
    //...

If you want you completely hide the column menu for lets say the 3rd column you can use the following work-around:

$(function(){
     $('#GridName .k-header-column-menu').eq(2).hide()
})

Answer 2

You can use this in MVC when defining the columns. Sample code is as as below.

columns.Bound(person => person.FirstName).IncludeInMenu(false);