Filtering/sorting on bit flag column

[Nicholas]

Hi,

I'm trying to find out whether Kendo supports filtering and sorting operations (client side) on bit flag columns (i.e enums with the [Flags] attribute).

We'd like to have one column that displays several different icons depending on which bits are set in the column. This can be accomplished easily with a client template, but filtering looks more complex. By default, it looks like Kendo will try and set "equal to" as the operator in the generated filter expression, when we really need a logical and to return records with the selected flag bits set. I've dug through the source code a bit and it doesn't seem that filter expressions can support logical and or logical or as the operator for a single filter (I am not talking about the logic used to combine multiple filters). Is this correct, or is there something I've overlooked?

Thanks,
Nick

[Nicholas]

Noticed a mistake in my post but I don't see any means to edit it:

I am referring to bitwise and/or operations in Kendo filter expressions, not logical as I said before.

[Alexander Popov]

Hi Nick,

You are correct - this scenario is currently not supported.

Regards,
Alexander Popov
Telerik

 

 

[Nicholas]

Ok, thanks. What I did instead was write some code to map the individual bits to boolean properties on the data item, and a custom click handler for the filter button that would handle this properly. It's a bit messy, but it worked.