kendo clienttemplate with parameters - kendo-ui

Question

I am trying to set up a Kendo MVC Grid using client templates for a set of columns.
I have this and it is working:
columns.Bound(m => m.FC_Sun).ClientTemplate("# if(FC_Sun != Base_Sun) {#" + "<span style='color:red;'>#:FC_Sun # </span>" + "# } else {#" + "#: FC_Sun #" + "# } #");
However I would like to move this to a client template instead as I need to add quite a few more items to the column and an inline template just seems a little 'clunky'.
The question is, how can I do this with a single client template. I have an existing one which works for a particular column (the same one as above).
<script id="columnTemplate" type="text/kendo-tmpl">
#if(FC_Sun != Base_Sun){#
<span style='color:orange'>#:FC_Sun #</span>
#}else{#
<span>#: FC_Sun #</span>
#}#
</script>
As you can see this is very much tied to one column, doing it this way I would need to create 7 templates, one for each day of the week, which just seems overkill.
So is there a way to pass extra parameters to the template which tell it which values to use in the if statement..?

Answer 1

As it turns out there is a way to pass parameters to the template, in the grid:
"#=customColumnTemplate($.extend({}, data, { field: 'FC_Sun' }))#"
And the template:
<script id="columnTemplate" type="text/kendo-tmpl">
<p>#= data[field] #</p>
</script>
<script>
var customColumnTemplate = kendo.template($('#columnTemplate').html());
</script>
The way I actually did it in the end though was to skip the external template and use a function directly:
"#=customColumnTemplate(data, 'FC_Sun', 'Base_Sun')#"
.
function customColumnTemplate(data, field, baseField) {
var fc = data[field];
var fcBase = data[baseField];
if (fc != fcBase) {
return "<span style='color:red;'/>" + fc + "</span>";
}
return fc;
}

Answer 2

There isn't a way to pass parameters directly to a Kendo template, unfortunately. However, you could try using a switch statement in your template, and add an enumeration (or whatever would work) to your model for the switch key:
<script id="columnTemplate" type="text/kendo-tmpl">
# switch (DayofWeek) {
case "Sunday": #
<span style='color:orange;'>#:FC_Sun #</span>
# break; #
# case "Monday": #
<span style='color:red;'>#:FC_Mon #</span>
# break; #
...
# } #
</script>
This should allow you to "pass parameters" via the model, and control the appearance of the template per model instance.
Hope this helps.