Hello,
The Kendo widgets are very impressive overall, but I’d like to share some critical observations of the grid filterable functionality:
Thanks,
Gary
The Kendo widgets are very impressive overall, but I’d like to share some critical observations of the grid filterable functionality:
- When setting a filterable property such as extra: false, all columns are automatically assumed to be filterable. This reverses the default (and preferred behavior) of explicitly applying filterable: true on the column.
- The only way to remove unwanted operators is indirectly, via specifying the text for each operator that should be in the list. Furthermore, this has to be done per data type.
- The filterable customization functionality and the column filterable IU functionality do not work well together. This is evident in the filter customization demo. The City filter uses a dropdownlist widget and the default operator is “Starts with”, which makes no sense in this context.
- When using a filterable UI with dropdownlist or autocomplete it is invariably the goal that the list of allowed values be the distinct set of values from the results in the column, but the current functionality requires use of an external data source.
Thanks,
Gary