[Solved] Filter when button is pressed

[James]

I've read the some posts about this. I've looked at 2 demos, the web mail one and the one under docs titled Search on key press/button click. In both of these examples a seperate search box was used.

What I want to do seems fairly straight forward and revolved around the way the filtering is implemented. Most search screens from google to most apps out there have a number of search fields to fill out, then you click a search button. Using the AutoPostBackOnFilter, then clicking enter works great, except for the autopostback. Users want to be able to fill out several fields, then hit search to find what they are looking for.

What I need to do is use the existing autogenerated filter fields, or templated fields. Then on the click of a search button filter on those fields. Additionally, I want to disable the functionality that will filter when you select a filter type.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Is there a single javascript funciton exposed, like doFilter() that I can call when the user clicks a button?

Thank you!

[Yavor]

Hi James,

There are two possible options in this case.
The first is to set the filter expression for the control directly, for example when the user presses the button. When you go to the server, you can set the filter expression, by accessing the RadGrid1.MasterTableView.FilterExpression.
Alternatively, you can use client side script, to trigger a succession of filter commands.
I hope this information helps.

Greetings,
Yavor
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