[Solved] Excel style filtering in Kendo UI Q1 2015

[Pieter]

Hi,

I have a couple of questions about the Excel style filtering in the upcoming Kendo UI Q1 2015:

Let's assume I have a grid with a "Priority" column with possible values of "High", "Medium" and "Low". I have a 999 records evenly distributed over the different priorities and enabled server (!) paging on the grid with a page size of 10. By default, the server returns the values in order of their priority, high first.

1. Will the Excel style filter work correctly if on the first pages only "High" items are visible? In other words: how will it know which other priorities are available?
2. If we configure the datasource to initially only return the "High" priority items (by applying a default filter), will the filter ever be able to figure out the other possible values?

Best regards,

Pieter

[Kiril Nikolov]

Hello Pieter,

Thank you for your interest in Kendo UI.

The filtering functionality will be enabled for server filtering as well. So if you set server paging and you want to support the filtering scenario you will need to enable server filtering as well, so you can filter for items that are not yet available on the client.

Regards,
Kiril Nikolov
Telerik

 

 

[Pieter]

Hi,

Thanks for your answer.

Can I conclude that if we don't do server paging (but client) the scenario I described above won't work?

Best regards,

Pieter 

[Kiril Nikolov]

Hello Pieter,

Yes, without server paging the scenario that you describe will not work.

Regards,
Kiril Nikolov
Telerik