Hierarchy

The Grid provides options for visualizing the relations between parent and child records by displaying its table data in a hierarchical manner. This approach is useful when you're dealing with a one-to-many relationship between the data.

For a runnable example, refer to the demo on using hierarchy in the Grid.

Configuration

To implement hierarchy in the Grid, wire its detailInit event and filter the records in the child table based on the parent key field value.

Initialize the parent grid and configure its settings.

<div id="grid"></div>
<script>
    $("#grid").kendoGrid({
        dataSource: {
            type: "odata",
            transport: {
                read: "https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/service/Northwind.svc/Employees"
            },
            schema: {
                model: {
                    id: "EmployeeID" // The model.id field is the "primary key" of the dataSource.
                }
            },
            pageSize: 6,
            serverPaging: true,
            serverSorting: true
        }
        // other configurations such as columns, height, sortable, pageable, etc.
    });
</script>

Attach a handler to the detailInit event of the parent grid.

<div id="grid"></div>
<script>
    $("#grid").kendoGrid({
        detailInit: detailInit,
        dataSource: {
            type: "odata",
            transport: {
                read: "https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/service/Northwind.svc/Orders"
            },
            pageSize: 6,
            serverPaging: true,
            serverSorting: true
        },
        // other configurations such as columns, height, sortable, pageable, etc.
    });
</script>

Define the detailInit function and configure the child grid.

function detailInit(e) {
    $("<div/>").appendTo(e.detailCell).kendoGrid({
        dataSource: {
            type: "odata",
            transport: {
                    read: "https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/service/Northwind.svc/Orders"
            },
            serverFiltering: true,
            serverPaging: true,
            serverSorting: true,
            pageSize: 10
        },
        // other configurations such as columns, height, sortable, pageable, etc.
    });
}

Use the primary key of the parent grid to filter the records of the child grid. In this case, the primary key is EmployeeID.

function detailInit(e) {
    $("<div/>").appendTo(e.detailCell).kendoGrid({
        dataSource: {
            type: "odata",
            transport: {
                    read: "https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/service/Northwind.svc/Orders"
            },
            // Retrieve all records where the EmployeeID is equal to the primary key of the parent.
            filter: {field: "EmployeeID", operator: "eq", value: e.data.EmployeeID},
            serverFiltering: true,
            serverPaging: true,
            serverSorting: true,
            pageSize: 10
        },
        // other configurations such as columns, height, sortable, pageable, etc.
    });
}

The following code snippet showcases the full implementation of the Hierarchical Grid:

    <div id="grid"></div>

    <script>
        $(document).ready(function() {
            var element = $("#grid").kendoGrid({
                dataSource: {
                    type: "odata",
                    transport: {
                        read: "https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/service/Northwind.svc/Employees"
                    },
                    pageSize: 6,
                    serverPaging: true,
                    serverSorting: true,
                    schema: {
                        model: {
                            id: "EmployeeID"
                        }
                    }
                },
                height: 600,
                sortable: true,
                pageable: true,
                detailInit: detailInit,
                dataBound: function() {
                    this.expandRow(this.tbody.find("tr.k-master-row").first());
                },
                columns: [
                    {
                        field: "FirstName",
                        title: "First Name",
                        width: "110px"
                    },
                    {
                        field: "LastName",
                        title: "Last Name",
                        width: "110px"
                    },
                    {
                        field: "Country",
                        width: "110px"
                    },
                    {
                        field: "City",
                        width: "110px"
                    },
                    {
                        field: "Title"
                    }
                ]
            });
        });

        function detailInit(e) {
            $("<div/>").appendTo(e.detailCell).kendoGrid({
                dataSource: {
                    type: "odata",
                    transport: {
                        read: "https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/service/Northwind.svc/Orders"
                    },
                    serverPaging: true,
                    serverSorting: true,
                    serverFiltering: true,
                    pageSize: 10,
                    filter: { field: "EmployeeID", operator: "eq", value: e.data.EmployeeID }
                },
                scrollable: false,
                sortable: true,
                pageable: true,
                columns: [
                    { field: "OrderID", width: "110px" },
                    { field: "ShipCountry", title:"Ship Country", width: "110px" },
                    { field: "ShipAddress", title:"Ship Address" },
                    { field: "ShipName", title: "Ship Name", width: "300px" }
                ]
            });
        }
    </script>

Hierarchy

Configuration

See Also

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