How do I always show some items in the grid?

[Balaji]

Hello,

 I don't know whether this question is dumb. Say I have a column called Name with a filter. 

Let's say I have these are the names (Alex,Steve,Mark,ImportantName1,Andrew,ImporantName2). 

Say if I filter for Alex, the grid should not display Alex. It should display (Alex, ImportantName1,ImporantName2).

if I filter for Andrew, the grid should display (ImportantName1,Andrew,ImportantName2). 

I always want to have ImporantantName1 and ImportantName2 to be displayed irrespective of the filter condition. 

If I try to have a custom filter and if I have a filter condition for contains ImportantName, it just displays those 2 items. 

How can I have a smart filter that can always show those 2 important items and the filtered items. 

Thanks.      

[Venelin]

Hello Balaji,

Actually with custom filtering it should work. You can pass the filtered data set to a list (or whatever structure you like) and then push the important names to this list. Then return the list in the action result.

Regards,
Venelin
Telerik

 

 

[Balaji]

Hello Vanelin,

Is there a dojo or something for getting the filtered data, push it to a list? or I should use the change function?

lets say I have a filter like this. This filter just gets the "ImportantNames" and ignores others.  How can I modify this filter to include importantnames and also other names.

var customFilter = function (){

       return {

               field: "BrokerName",

               operator: function(item){

                         return item.indexOf("ImportantName") !== -1;

               }

      }

}

Are you talking about the change event which comes as a part of datasource and that is where I need to handle the filtered data?

var customDataSource = new kendo.data.DataSource({

change: function (e) {

//Modify the list using e.items and add the important names to the list. is it what you are talking about?

}

 

});

 

Thanks.

[Venelin]

Hello Balaji,

Sorry, for some reason I was thinking that the filtering is on server. If it's on client, then you can try to dynamically add custom filters. I have created some sketch of the solution, but you have to modify it in order to fit it to your needs: http://dojo.telerik.com/@vpetrov/uMoQU. In this simple example I push this filter:

_flt.filters.push({
    field: "ShipName",
    operator: "contains",
    value: "Toms Spezialitäten"
})

"Toms Spezialitäten" is the "special name" in this case.

Regards,
Venelin
Telerik