Hide expand/collapse column and use row click to expand/collapse row detail instead

Hi Ruby Jean,

Please take a look at this example illustrating one way to expand and collapse rows in a hierarchical Kendo Grid by row clicking.   

First, hide the classes "k-hierarchy-cell" and "k-hierarchy-col" during the databound event.  Then, create some custom jQuery to handle the click event on the rows. 

More details about this approach can be found on this post in our forums.

Hope this helps!

Regards,
Patrick
Telerik