Grid Filtering on an Object Column

[Kevin]

I have a grid with an object as a column. For example, let's say we have column.Bound(b => b.Product), where Product is an object of { Id: int, Name: string }. I also use an editor template dropdrownlist which has the same model so it binds properly, so just having Product.Name bound to the column wouldn't seem to work well in this case. 

Is there a way to make it so that the filters just take in the value of Product.Name? I saw others with similar issues online, but didn't see a solution that worked for me. 

[Georgi]

Hi Kevin,

A possible solution is to bind the column to the Product.Name field and the editor of the column to the Product field.

The same approach is demonstrated in the grid's overview demo:

• https://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-core/grid

Please note that the category column is bound to the category name field in order to enable filtering/sorting/grouping. However, to edit the whole category object, the editor is bound to the category object field.

e.g.

@(Html.Kendo().DropDownListFor(m => m)
            .DataValueField("CategoryID")
            .DataTextField("CategoryName")
            .HtmlAttributes(new {data_bind="value: Category" })
            .BindTo((System.Collections.IEnumerable)ViewData["categories"])
)

Regards,
Georgi
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