ColumnMenu Filters - Default first search parameter to "Contains" (from the default of "Starts With")

[Jason]

In the column menu under the filter, the first box is defaulted to "Starts With".  We've found that our users are switching this to "Contains" about 90% of the time.  How to we change the default to be "Contains".

Thanks
Jason

[Dimiter Madjarov]

Hi Jason,


To achieve this, you could bind to the columnMenuInit event of the Grid, get the DropDownList instance and set it's value to Contains.
E.g.

function columnMenuInit(e) {
    var ddl = e.container.find("[data-role='dropdownlist']:first").data("kendoDropDownList");
    ddl.value("contains");
    ddl.trigger("change");
}

I hope this information helps. Have a great day!

Regards,
Dimiter Madjarov
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