Search Values in Gridview

[Dongzhi]

Is it possible to attach a search control to the gridview to find values that the user types in? Something like what Find does in MS Word.

[Dimitrina]

Hi,

You can check the "Search as you type" WPF Demo as an example.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Didie
Telerik

[Dongzhi]

The scenario I have is I'll have a custom grid control and wanted to attach a user control with a textbox and two buttons (Next and Previous) to the grid. As the user types it would highlight the rows and the user could use the next and previous buttons to go to the next highlight search. Something like the picture attached

[Dimitrina]

Hi,

The closest option we can offer you would be to check this blog post. It demonstrates how to filter the grid and highlight the matching texts. 

You can also disable the filtering logic and keep just the highlighting.

Regards,
Didie
Telerik

[Ram]

Hello Dimitrina,

I looked at this blog and it is quite interesting. Could you show - how to disable filtering and only show highlighting?

Does the same also work RadTreeListView control?

Thanks

[Yoan]

Hello Ram,

I already answered your support ticket on the subject. For your convenience I will paste my answer here as well:
 
  1. You can achieve this functionality by simply removing the following line of code from the CustomFilterDescriptor class:
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public CustomFilterDescriptor(IEnumerable<Telerik.Windows.Controls.GridViewColumn> columns)
        {
            this.compositeFilterDesriptor = new CompositeFilterDescriptor();
            this.compositeFilterDesriptor.LogicalOperator = FilterCompositionLogicalOperator.Or;

            foreach (GridViewDataColumn column in columns)
            {
                this.compositeFilterDesriptor.FilterDescriptors.Add(this.CreateFilterForColumn(column));
            }
        }

This will disable the filtering logic, however, the highlighting part will work.

 2. The filtering functionality will not work in the same way as in RadGridView, so I am afraid that you can not achieve it using our RadTreeListView.

Regards,
Yoan
Telerik