Form based Filtering

[Mark Breen]

Hello All,

Using telerik radGrid 2009.3.1103.35

I have a form with 4 columns displayed and filters work well there.  However, on my main form, I have about 40 other columns, and I would like to be able to search by some of those, perhaps ten or twelve in total.

but if I display all twelve columns, my form is too wide for the screen, so I guess that I need a custom search screen?

Is there any way to do using the grid?

thanks

Mark

[Yavor]

Hello Mark,

Basically, to handle this functionality, you can take a custom approach.
You can toggle off the display of the unwanted column(s). In this manner, the data would still be available, but simply not visible to the user, allowing you to apply custom filtering criteria. To do so, you have two options:

1. Trigger the filtering from the client, by using the .filter command of the mastertable. This is demonstrated in the following example:
   http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/grid/examples/programming/filtertemplate/defaultcs.aspx
2. Alternatively, if you have a wider fitlering range (more than one column), you can choose to set the filter expression of the grid directly. This can be done by constructung the filter expression manually. More information on this option is available in the following article:
   http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/grdoperatewithfilterexpression.html

I hope this information gets you started properly.

Sincerely yours,

Yavor
the Telerik team

 

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[Mark Breen]

Hello Yavor,

I did not realise that I could use drop down combo's in the filters, that is great news for me.

thanks I will try that and I think it will work fine for me.

Mark