RadComboBox Filtering on item.value as well as item.text

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  1. Adam
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    Sep 2013

    Posted 23 Jan 2014 Link to this post

    Hi all, real quick question here, is it at all possible some how to allow the filter / markfirstmatched stuff to filter the list on the item.value as well as the text but only display the text element..?

    Basically, we have a list of establishments and the value for each establishment is it's site id, some people would love to just type in the 4 digit site id instead of the full name of the site (old school people who are fast with the number pad...) and so it'd be really good if I could specifiy what the items get filtered on?

    If I can't filter on both the text and value, could I atleast change to filtering to point at the item.tooltip as I have added both the Text and Value into the tooltip...

    Thanks in advance!!!

    Adam.
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    Jon
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    Mar 2013

    Posted 23 Jan 2014 Link to this post

    You could make the combo box multi-column (via a template) putting the id in one column and the name in the other.  Then mark first match should work for you.  We do this with Client Name and Client ID.
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    Shinu
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    Mar 2007

    Posted 24 Jan 2014 Link to this post

    Hi Adam,

    Please have a look into the sample code snippet as suggested by Jon.

    ASPX:
    <telerik:RadComboBox runat="server" ID="RadComboBox2" Height="190px" Width="420px"
        EmptyMessage="Select" DataTextField="Cityname" DataValueField="Countryname" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1"
        AutoPostBack="true" AllowCustomText="true" Filter="StartsWith">
        <HeaderTemplate>
            <ul>
                <li class="col1">City Name</li>
                <li class="col2">Country Name</li>
            </ul>
        </HeaderTemplate>
        <ItemTemplate>
            <ul>
                <li class="col1">
                    <%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Cityname")%></li>
                <li class="col2">
                    <%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Countryname")%></li>
            </ul>
        </ItemTemplate>
    </telerik:RadComboBox>

    Thanks,
    Shinu.
  7. Adam
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    Sep 2013

    Posted 28 Jan 2014 in reply to Jon Link to this post

    Spot on! :) I set the display of the ID column to none also so it still looks the same, but has the hidden additional data :)

    Thanks so much! :)
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