title: How to show Kendo Grid's columnMenu using script
body: <p>The Kendo Grid has a really nice column context menu (aka: columnMenu) which you can access by right clicking on each column header.  The menu is enabled by setting the field in the Kendo Grid to:</p>
  
  <p>columnMenu: true</p>
  
  <p>When the columnMenu is enabled, it displays the columns in the grid and allows you to show/hide columns, sort, and filter on them.  However, we have a requirement to move this column menu outside of the grid and tie it to a button.  So when the user clicks on a button, the column menu will appear.  Is there a way to invoke this via javascript?</p>
  
  <p>This request is similar to one made by Michiel (March 5, 2012).  However, in that particular case, it was a request for the contextMenu for a different product, the Telerik MVC Grid.  The URL for Michiel's question is below as a reference:  <a href="http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/aspnet-mvc/grid/how-to-show-column-context-menu-using-script.aspx">http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/aspnet-mvc/grid/how-to-show-column-context-menu-using-script.aspx</a></p>