[Solved] filtering textbox

[Ryan]

I've been playing with the filtering built into the grid and it works really well.

What I would like to do is have a seperate textbox above my grid where users can enter search text and then click search and I  can filter the grid contents without using the builtin column filtering controls. 

At the moment I have it working as follows (using ajax databinding, NOT using column filtering)

grid.rebind ({ searchText : $("#SearchBox").val() })

This means i provide the filtering myself server side as part of the data access.
I would like to have the filtering handled automatically by the GridAction.

Is it possible to use the client API to enter filtering details ie. set the filterBy ?
Does column filtering have to be enabled to enter filter details clientside ?

thanks

ryan

[Alex Gyoshev]

Hi Ryan,

Since you want to use the client-side filtering API, you should enable the grid filtering. I take it that you want to hide the actual filtering UI, so that you can use your own - that is easily achieved through CSS with the following rule:

div.t-grid-filter { display: none; }

Then, you can access the client-side methods and the filtering will be handled automatically on the server.

Regards,
Alex Gyoshev
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