Sorting on Custom Edit Column

[Ricardo]

Hello,

I am having a problem sorting by the column that I enabled a custom editor for. 

I basically followed the sample at http://demos.kendoui.com/web/grid/editing-custom.html 

How would you go about sorting by the "Category" column? The column it self is an object, so I think is getting confused.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
Covo

[Dimiter Madjarov]

Hi Ricardo,


The dataSource of the Grid supports only flat data and this is why the sorting does not work for nested objects. I would suggest you the following workaround - bind the column to the text field of the object (this will fix the sorting). Then you could omit the binding of the DropDownList (because we don't want the value field to be displayed in the column) and manually set the value of the item in the change event of the DropDownList. The only downside of the approach is that the DropDownList won't have a default value. Here is JS Bin example, which demonstrates this.

I hope that this information was helpful for you.

 

Regards,
Dimiter Madjarov
Telerik

[Ricardo]

Thansk Dimiter, I will give it a try!