Filtering row

[David]

I have a gridview with filter enabled. Some columns are Text and some columns are combobox based. If I click into a filtering cell for a column that is combobox based then I get an empty combobox for the filter. I dont want a combobox to show up. I just want to be able to enter text into a textbox instead. How can I do this?

[Nikolay]

Hi David,

Thank you for the question.

You can replace the default editor with a textbox one by handling the EditorRequired event. Further, you need to use custom filtering. Please note that the approach that you want to achieve may lead to some performance issues, because as you can see in the CustomeFiltering event handler of the attached project, you need to get the actual text for each cell based on its (id) value, which for a big number of rows may be a long process.

I hope this helps.

All the best,
Nikolay
the Telerik team