Refresh Particular Rows without Rendering the Entire Grid

Environment

Product	Progress® Kendo UI® Grid for jQuery
Product Version	2017.3.913

Description

How can I refresh the HTML of Grid record to apply the manual changes but avoid refreshing the entire Grid?

Solution

If you apply changes to the dataItem without using its set method, although the item will contain the new values, these values will not be applied to the HTML. To apply the changes, traverse all cells and manually populate the new content.

<input type='button' class="k-button k-button-md k-rounded-md k-button-solid k-button-solid-base" value='Change first cell value' onclick='changeFirstCellValue()' />
<div id="grid"></div>
<script>
  function changeFirstCellValue(){
    var grid = $("#grid").getKendoGrid();
    var firstRow = grid.items().first();
    var dataItem = grid.dataItem(firstRow);
    dataItem["productName"] = "changed value";
    dataItem.dirty = true;
    kendoFastReDrawRow(grid, firstRow);
  }

$("#grid").kendoGrid({
    selectable: "multiple cell",
    allowCopy: true,
    columns: [
        { field: "productName", template: "ProductName template: #=productName#" },
        { field: "category" }
    ],
    dataSource: [
        { productName: "Tea", category: "Beverages" },
        { productName: "Coffee", category: "Beverages" },
        { productName: "Ham", category: "Food" },
        { productName: "Bread", category: "Food" }
    ]
});

  function kendoFastReDrawRow(grid, row) {
    var dataItem = grid.dataItem(row);

    var rowChildren = $(row).children('td[role="gridcell"]');

    for (var i = 0; i < grid.columns.length; i++) {

        var column = grid.columns[i];
        var template = column.template;
        var cell = rowChildren.eq(i);

        if (template !== undefined) {
            var kendoTemplate = kendo.template(template);

            // Render using template
            cell.html(kendoTemplate(dataItem));
        } else {
            var fieldValue = dataItem[column.field];

            var format = column.format;
            var values = column.values;

            if (values !== undefined && values != null) {
                // use the text value mappings (for enums)
                for (var j = 0; j < values.length; j++) {
                    var value = values[j];
                    if (value.value == fieldValue) {
                        cell.html(value.text);
                        break;
                    }
                }
            } else if (format !== undefined) {
                // use the format
                cell.html(kendo.format(format, fieldValue));
            } else {
                // Just dump the plain old value
                cell.html(fieldValue);
            }
        }
    }
}
</script>

Notes

This example is based on a post by Adam Yaxley on Stack Overflow.