Question

When using the jQuery approach to set a custom grouping header message (EDIT: recommended by the KENDO UI support staff on these forums in the past), e.g.

    $(".k-grouping-header").html("my custom grouping message");

the custom message reverts to the standard message if a user drags a column-header to the group header and then clicks the (X) to remove the grouping.

Is there a way to set this custom message as part of the grid’s configuration so it will survive the group/degroup operation?

To be clear, I have a custom message in mind, as distinct from a localized message; for example, “Drag the [department] column-header here to group by department” if department is the only column on the grid that is set to be groupable. The message would vary from grid to grid.

Answer 1

According to the documentation you could use.

groupable: {
    messages: {
        empty: "Custom message text"
    }
}

The documentation has gotten rather good latelly.