Grid search filtering in official release

[Joel]

Just wondering if the Grid widget will have search filtering integrated into it for the official release?

[Joseph Guido]

I'm looking for the same feature!

[James]

Same here. I'm very curious if/when this feature may be implemented.

[Atanas Korchev]

Hello,  

Filtering is already supported. Check this example. To enable the filtering you need to do the following:

1. Make the grid filterable:
   filterable: true
2. Configure the model of the datasource (required to determine the type of the column:
   

   dataSource: {
       data: createRandomData(50),
       schema: {
          model: {
             fields: {
                FirstName: { type: "string" },
                LastName: { type: "string" },
                City: { type: "string" },
                Title: { type: "string" },
                BirthDate: { type: "date" },
                Age: { type: "number" }
             }
          }

       }

   }

 Regards,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team

[Greg]

Hi Atanas,

The kind of filtering that my users prefer is a very simplified one, ala jquery datatables (http://datatables.net/). The filtering implemented for grid is certainly useful for someone like an excel power user. For the more casual user, it's a bit tedious to enter filter criteria column-by-column.

From a developer's perspective, the filtering you have implemented is great work!

Thanks for listening,

-Greg

[Joseph Guido]

I need additional features that are not included in the Grid.  I would like to discuss my requirements and see if and how they could be meet. 

Can the framework be extended or would this be an enhancement request?

[James]

That's exactly what I had in mind too, Greg. It's not clear if it's a simple matter to build a search field that allows filtering of rows displayed in the grid based on an almost auto-complete style of entry.

[Atanas Korchev]

Hello,

 The Kendo DataSource has a rich filtering API which can be used to filter any bound UI widgets. Here is a demo showing how to implement filtering with a dropdownlist:
http://demos.kendoui.com/web/grid/toolbar-template.html

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team

[Greg]

Atanas, thanks for that example - that does go a long way to getting me what I would like to see. Looking at DataSource, it does look like a free-text filter can be implemented. I'll give it a shot and see what I can come up with. The other thing my users like is the ability to export the filtered data in tab separated text or pdf format - we use a DataTables plugin for that now. I think I'm getting into feature request territory now which is probably beyond my open-source license agreement ;-)

[Conor]

Hi all, 

just wondering whether anyone ever implemented a global search feature? The best table filtering option I have ever seen has been in Datatables, whereby every cell in the table is queried compared and then returned, but I haven't found any way of replicating this yet with Kendo. Any ideas?

Conor

[Danny]

I second this! I am also trying to find a way to search all the columns of the grid in a 'Datatables'-like way. Would be a great plus if it were to be made possible with Kendo, because i think Kendo is superior in every other way. Would hate to not be able to use Kendo because of the lack of global search filtering.