How do you pass client-side filters to the server?

[Ryan]

     I've got a bunch of methods client-side that build up a list of all the filters to apply to a grid. However, I'm told it is possible to pass this list over to the server in order to have better control over the filters? In my case, I am trying to create a filter that looks like this:

`(cond || cond || cond) && cond`

I've noticed that Kendo seems to only support cases where it is `cond || cond` or `cond && cond`. Unless there is a way to make the above condition work, how can I pass my filters to the server and the `DataSourceRequest` in order to have that further control?

[Georgi]

Hi Ryan,

You could create the `(cond || cond || cond) && cond` filter as follows:

var filter = {
  logic:'and',
  filters:[
    {field:'...', operator:'...', value: '...'},
    {
      logic:'or', filters:
      [
        {field:'...', operator:'...', value: '...'},
        {field:'...', operator:'...', value: '...'},
        {field:'...', operator:'...', value: '...'}
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Furthermore, you can submit this filter to the server using the dataSource.filter method.

e.g.

grid.dataSource.filter(filter)

Have in mind that server operations should be enabled (by default they are enabled with Ajax binding), otherwise the grid will filter the data on the client and omit submitting the request to the server.

I hope this answers your questions.


Regards,
Georgi
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