RadComboBox REALLY needs to support filtering AND virtualization !

[Martin]

I just found a 15 year old post about RadComboBox filtering and virtualization not working

I cant understand why this hasn't been fixed yet ? 

GridView supports filtering and virtualization, so it's not like you dont know how to fix it.

 

You ESPECIALLY need virtualization AND filtering when you have 1000+ elements in your ComboBox like i do, 

we have a list of 3000 companies that i want to use in a selector...

it's only after completly abandonding RadComboBox and using the RadAutocompleterBox that i was able to achieve what i wanted - kind of. 

 

Could you PLEASE prioritize this missing feature ?

[Martin Ivanov]

Hello Martin,

I am posting the related feature request in order to be visible for anyone else that hits this post.

Your feedback is meaningful and it will be good to implement this functionality. I will forward your feedback to the dev team. 

As for why this isn't fixed, it is a complex decision based on different factors, like demand, planning of other more important features/bug fixes, not so unusual workaround (using RadAutoCompleteBox), the complexity of the implementation which will require rework of some internal parts of RadComboBox and more.

Regards,
Martin Ivanov
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[Martin]

Thanks 

Yeah i know how priorities work out :D

The reason why i'm a bit harsh, is because

1. its been requested for 15 years,

2. The whole reason why you want to use the RadComboBox is when you have many elements and want to be able to find them. So it's quite essential for the RadComboBox to have this functionality 

I hope it gets prioritezed :)

thanks

[Martin Ivanov]

I understand the frustration. I agree that it would be meaningful to support this scenario!