title: Kendo Ui grid: Popup window Add trigger from outside grid
body: <p>I have the grid and button below. What i am trying to achieve is to trigger Kendoui popup window when is the btnAdd clicked. I am aware that this can be achieve if you put button in kendo ui grid toolbar.</p>
  
  <p>Please advise, thank you</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;script&gt;      
          $('#btnAdd').click(function () {               
  
          });
       &lt;/script&gt;        
  
       &lt;input type="button" id="btnAdd"/&gt;
  
      @(Html.Kendo().Grid&lt;PWeb_App.ViewModels.ResultModel&gt;()        
              .Name("Result")
              .HtmlAttributes(new { @Style = "align:center; font-size:10px; width:985px" })               
              .Columns(columns =&gt;
              {
                  columns.Bound(p =&gt; p.GivenName).Width(90);
                  columns.Bound(p =&gt; p.FamilyName).Width(90);       
              })
              .ToolBar(toolbar =&gt; toolbar.Save())
              .Editable(editable =&gt; editable.Mode(GridEditMode.PopUp))
              .Sortable()        
              .Pageable(paging =&gt; paging
                  .Input(false)
                  .Numeric(true)        
                  .PreviousNext(true)
                  .PageSizes(new int[] { 5, 10, 25, 50 })
                  .Refresh(false)        
              )        
              .Selectable()
              .Scrollable()
              .ColumnMenu(c =&gt; c.Columns(false))
              .DataSource(dataSource =&gt; dataSource        
                  .Ajax()//bind with Ajax instead server bind
                  .PageSize(10)
                  .ServerOperation(true)
                  .Model(model =&gt;
                      {
                          model.Id(p =&gt; p.Pid);
                          model.Field(p =&gt; p.FamilyName).Editable(false);
                          model.Field(p =&gt; p.GivenName).Editable(false);        
                      })
                     .Read(read =&gt; read.Action("GetData", "Details").Type(HttpVerbs.Get))
                              .Update("Edit", "Details")
  
                  )
  
          )
  </code></pre>