[Solved] Filtering Child Tables

[Rick New]

Probably missing something simple here, but filtering is not working on a grid temple column containing a child table

<telerik:GridTemplateColumn  HeaderText="Country">
   <ItemTemplate>
       <asp:Literal ID="CountryLiteral" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Address.Country.Country1") %>' />
   </ItemTemplate>
</telerik:GridTemplateColumn>

Tables are: Company (PrimaryAddressID) > Address (CountryID) > Country.Country1 (country name)

When attempting to filter the grid by the country name, there is no filtering taking place, error messages or any change in the grid at all.

Thanks!

[Cori]

Hello Rick,

When you're saying no filtering is going on for the country column, what are you referring to? Are you referring to the filter control or are you trying to apply a FilterExpression for that column?

Also, since you're using a TemplateColumn, you need to create your filtering functionality by adding it to the FilterTemplate, since the TemplateColumn doesn't have automatic filtering like the other columns.

[Rick New]

Thank you for your reply.

Yes, no filtering is going on for the Country Column, the other column filters work fine. I am using the filter control.  

Filtering was enabled for the whole table, which I thought applied to all columns if not explicitly overridden in the template.  The County Template now has AllowFiltering = true explicitly set, but the filter is still not working.  

<telerik:GridTemplateColumn AllowFiltering="true"  HeaderText="Country">
      <ItemTemplate>
                <asp:Literal ID="CountryLiteral" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Address.Country.Country1") %>' />
        </ItemTemplate>
</telerik:GridTemplateColumn>

Thanks.

[Pavlina]

Hello Rick,

To allow filtering in template columns, you need to set the DataField property of the template column to the field you want to use for filtering. Refer to the following help article for more information:
http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/grdimplementingfilteringfortemplatecolumns.html

Regards,
Pavlina
the Telerik team