Controlling the behavior of Kendo Grid Filter

[shakye]

Hi,

I'm using Kendo Grid Angular implementation. Can we customize the behavior of the column menu filter? I need to stop table filtering but retain all the other functionality(retain filter functionality in the UI). This is mainly because I'm handling the filter implementation in the back end.

Thanks & Regards.

[Martin Bechev]

Hello Shakye,

I am not sure what you mean by - 'I need to stop table filtering but retain all the other functionality'.

However, the column menu content of the Grid can be customized by using the kendoGridColumnMenuTemplate. For more details please check the following article from our documentation:

https://www.telerik.com/kendo-angular-ui/components/grid/columns/menu/#toc-customizing-the-content

The template allows excluding features from the column menu which are rendered by default (like filtering). Here is an example demonstrating this in action:

https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-syc9de

I hope this sheds some light. In case I misunderstood the requirement, please could I ask for further details about the scenario and how the column menu should look like in this case. Thank you in advance.

Regards,
Martin
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[shakye]

Hi Martin,

Thanks for your reply. Our requirement is to prevent the default behavior of the filter. I basically need the filter not to filter the table but to hold the value of the filter. This is mainly because we handle the filtration in the back-end of the application, we just want to pass the filtering values to the back-end without filtering the table from the UI. However we figured it's best if we have our own filter component, but if there's an ability to achieve this functionality let me know. Hope it makes sense :).

Thanks & Regards.

[Martin Bechev]

Hi Shakye, 

Thanks for the provided additional details on this case.

Indeed disabling the default column menu filter is not possible at the moment. What I can suggest is to utilize the aforementioned template, to create custom controls that will show the filtered value received from the server.