Feb 26, 2015 we conducted a webinar titled “Exporting Data Easily with Kendo UI”.  We here at Telerik India host webinars almost every Thursday of the month from 3PM to 4PM IST. This time we wanted to talk about one of the most asked feature in Kendo UI – Data Export.

As part of our Kendo UI Q3 2014 release, we introduced the capability of exporting data to Excel & PDF out of the box. In this webinar i take a look at the options available for Excel export and PDF export. You can find more about Kendo UI here: http://www.telerik.com/kendo-ui.

Slide Deck:

Here is the slide deck used in the webinar:

Video Recording:

Here is the video recording of the webinar:

Q&A:

Q: Is it required to know JQuery for Kendo UI?
A: Kendo UI is based on JQuery and depends on JQuery. If you know JQuery way of working things, it will be easier to use Kendo UI.

Q: Is Kendo UI Open Source?
A: Kendo UI Core is the open source version of Kendo UI. You can know more about it here: http://www.telerik.com/kendo-ui/open-source-core. Kendo UI Professional is our Enterprise product which will require license.  You can know more about it here: http://www.telerik.com/kendo-ui

Q: Will Kendo UI mobile support BlackBerry as well?
A: yes it will.

Q: What could be the minimal software requirements to support Kendo UI?
A: Here are the supported browsers: http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/browsers-support and JavaScript Prerequisites: http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/install/prerequisites

Q: which IDE is the better one for KENDO UI?
A: Since Kendo UI is all about writing JavaScript – Any IDE that you are familiar with and are comfortable can be used.

Q: I dont have excel or PDF plugin installed in my web browser or on my box. still could i able to visualize the contents?
A: Kendo UI doesnt require Microsoft Office or Adobe software to create Excel or PDF documents on client side. But you will need Microsoft Office & Adobe software to view the exported files on the machine.

Q: What is the role of JSZip library in this?
A: Is is used to zip up the file and save it to local disk.

Q: Can I initialize the formulae for any cell while exporting to excel ?
A: Formulas are not supported as of now.

Q: what version of Kendo UI is export option supported?
A: Data Export is available from Q3 2014 release onwards

Q: how can we format the columns in excel?
A: This scenario is documented in our documentation. You can take a look at it here: http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/web/grid/how-to/excel/cell-format

Teleik Ninja T-Shirt Winners:

As usual we have picked the following two lucky attendees as our T-Shirt winners. They are:

• Sinu Antony
• Altaf Shaikh

Congratulations to winners. Those who did not win, dont worry – we still have a lot of webinars to go this year. So try your luck in our next webinar.

Till next time – Happy Coding.