GridViewHyperlinkColumn and Filtering

[Eric Schoenholzer]

Hi, my GridViewHyperlinkColumn  the DataMember is bound to the URL-Field and the Content to a Name-Field (shown as text).
SortMemberPath is also set to the Name.

When I use the filter, GriedView tries to filter after the URL (DataMember).
Is there a way to use the Name-Field as value to filter?
No property named "FilterMemberPath" ?

Thanks
Eric

[Rossen Hristov]

Hi Eric Schoenholzer,

Your best option would be to implement a Custom Filtering Control like demonstrated in this blog post.

There is another option, which is not so "clean". You can attach to the DistinctValuesLoading event of the grid. For the hyperlink column you can replace the default distinct values, i.e. the URL's with their respective friendly names. This will populate the distinct values text-box with the friendly names.

Now since the underlying data is actually the URL, you will have to attach to the Filtering event of the grid and manually change the value of the filter descriptor back to the URL It will come as the friendly name, i.e. the thing from the distinct values list box and you will change it back to the URL.

Yet another option which you can try is to add an IValueConverter to the column Binding. The default filtering control will respect the IValueConverter and show whatever it returns.

I hope this helps. Let me know if it does not.

Best wishes,
Ross
the Telerik team

[Pierre]

Hi Ross,

    Can you send code snippets for options 2 and 3.

    Thanks