filtering "on the fly"

[Łukasz Kuryło]

Hi.
I have radgrid with template column and enabled filtering for this column with ShowFilterIcon="false" CurrentFilterFunction="Contains" AutoPostBackOnFilter="true"
When I write sth in the filter field and press enter it works ok. Now I want sth like that. When I write something in this field, after 500ms I want to send it without clicking on the enter. How can I do that?

[Princy]

Hello,

I guess you can achieve this by trying the approach:

Access the textbox in ItemCreated event and attach OnKeyPress event to textbox. Pass the textbox client object and to event handler by passing 'this' as parameter. Now in the event handler, check for the length of the textbox text and invoke the filter command accordingly after a timeout (use setTimeOut() method for that).

You could get more information on filter command from here.

Regards,
Princy.

[Debajyoti]

can you please prepare a sample code and share with us. we are just learning the usage of rad grid and totally lost to bring this functionality.

Thanks very much

[Viktor Tachev]

Hi,

You could implement a search for the RadGrid on key press by following the instructions in this article. Also you could find similar approach illustrated in a code library located here.

Follow the illustrated approach and you should be able to achieve the desired result.

Regards,
Viktor Tachev
Telerik