Incremental Search - Custom Template or formatting

[Reid]

I have an incremental search using a Kendo UI DropdownList working in an ASP.NET Core application.  I would like to have multiple columns in the display or at least to group the results.  So that I could nicely format it showing products they are searching for grouped by category with a category image.

 

Sort of like :

<image> Category 1

    Selection 1
    Selection 2

<image> Category 2
    Selection 1
    Selection 2

etc.

Are there any demos demonstrating this?

 

Thanks

[Marin Bratanov]

Hello Reid,

The MultiColumnComboBox does that: https://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-core/multicolumncombobox/grouping.

Alternatively, you can use item templates for the dropdownlist widget to declare columns and you can use data provided by the controller for the first item in each group so the template can know to render additional group header: https://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-core/dropdownlist/template. By the way, the data source of the dropdownlist can also group data: https://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-core/dropdownlist/grouping.

Neither of the built-in grouping features offers a template for the grouping header, however, so if the text of the group does not suffice for you, you'd have to tweak the item template and probably the data to contain the needed information so you can render it out.

Regards,
Marin Bratanov
Progress Telerik

[Reid]

Hello Marin,

Thank you for posting this.  I will try to integrate my solution with the strategies you link to here.