Filemanagers inbuilt search text box: How to change filtering method to "contains"?

[Patrick]

The FileManager has a toolbar with an inbuilt search text box. How can I change the filtering method from the default (seems to be "startswith") to "contains".

Thanks for any advice!

Patrick

[Neli]

Hello,

A possible approach is to define the search tool through the toolbar.items configuration, and change the operator in the toolbar.items.options to "contains":

Here is a Dojo example where this is demonstrated.

I hope you will find the provided example helpful.

Regards,
Neli
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[Michael]

As it pertains to the 2022.2.802 build of the Kendo UI for MVC suite this is how I was able to accomplish the desired change to the doing contains given that the build in rendered search input element has a attribute value (data-command='SearchCommand') that can be used as a selector and has the filter criterion set as a data-options attribute out of the box thus it is simple matter to update the data-options attribute - verified it works in my implementation (added below js to script element on the Razor Index view hosting the FileManager control):

$(document).ready(function () {

        
        var searchInput = $("[data-command='SearchCommand']");

        if (searchInput)
            searchInput.attr("data-options", "{ \"field\": \"name\", \"operator\": \"contains\" }");

    });

[Neli]

Hi Michael, 

Thank you so much for sharing your solution with the community. It is highly appreciated!

I believe it will be helping others facing the same scenario.

Regards,

Neli