filter: "wordStartsWith"

[Shea]

I need to have my combo box filter on items that have a word that starts with the text typed.
So typing 'and':

thousand - no
And Cats - yes
Andales - yes
sandman - no

Using contains would show all of those. Is it possible to have a custom filter that would just show And Cats, and Andales?

~S

[Dimiter Madjarov]

Hi Shea,


To achieve this you should use the filter configuration option of the ComboBox and set it to startswith.

I wish you a great day!

Regards,
Dimiter Madjarov
Telerik

[Shea]

Dimiter,

Thanks for the reply. I make a mistake explaining my question.

I want the filter to be aware of 'words', so that 'and' matches 'one and two'. Using startsWith, 'one and two' would not match 'and' would it? In my tests it does not.

[Dimiter Madjarov]

Hi Shea,


There is no such built in filter. Nevertheless in the current scenario you could set any type of filter, for example "contains" (because the filtering is disabled by default) and enable the serverFiltering option of the dataSource. In this case the developer is responsible to manually perform the filtering on the back end and return the matched items to the widget.

Regards,
Dimiter Madjarov
Telerik