How to set columns dynamically in Kendo template

Question

How to set columns dynamically in Kendo template for kendo grid.In my kendo grid,columns are subject to change dynamically based on user preference.How to dynamically create Kendo Template?I am using Kendo JavaScript,I can switch to Kendo MVC if same thing i can achieve there.Is there any other approach to achieve this?

<script id="rowTemplate" type="text/x-kendo-template">
        <tr class="k-master-row">

            <td>

                    <div>#=column1#</div>

            </td>
            <td><span class="mydesign" title="column2#"</span></td>
            <td>#column3#</td>
            <td>#=column4#</td>

        </tr>
    </script>

Edit : In Kendo grid, we are dynamically setting the columns. Now issue is how do we set the dynamic width for content table and the header table. If it exceeds the max width how do we enable the horizontal scroll bar. Is there any approach to achieve this?

Answer 1

I'm not using kendo for MVC but I can still explain how to do this using regular kendo functions.

Basically, you can create a new kendo template instance by passing an html string to kendo.template. Then you can assign the new template instance to the grid's rowTemplate (or altRowTemplate) then call dataSource.read() to force a grid refresh.

You can generate your own html string or update an existing template in your page then use the jquery's html() to convert it into a string.

Ex:

var htmlTemplate = '';
if (userPreferences.likeRed) {
    htmlTemplate ='<tr class="k-master-row"><td style="background-color:red">#column1#</td></tr>'
} else {
    htmlTemplate ='<tr class="k-master-row"><td style="background-color:green">#column1#</td></tr>'
}

$("#grid").data("kendoGrid").rowTemplate = kendo.template(htmlTemplate);
$("#grid").data("kendoGrid").dataSource.read();