When using grouping, is searching by group possible?

[Brian]

Using this kendo example: https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/combobox/grouping

I want the combo box to search by the customer names or country. In my use case, the user might remember what country the customer is from and needs to filter by that.

Is this possible?

[Ivan Danchev]

Hello Brian,

By design the ComboBox' filtering functionality uses the field set as dataTextField to filter the items. If you want to use another filed, for instance "Country" in the demo you linked, this would require the ComboBox dataSource to be filtered. Here's a sample dojo, which shows how this can be done in the filtering event handler.

Regards,
Ivan Danchev
Progress Telerik

[Brian]

Thanks for the reply. I don't think that dojo link is working properly. I keep getting a "failed to load snippet" error.

[Ivan Danchev]

Hello Brian,

Please excuse us for the inconvenience. We were having issues with our dojo site and as a result many examples could not be loaded correctly. The example I posted in my previous reply should load as expected now, but in case the loading exception reappears I'll attach it as an html page (zipped) to this reply.

Regards,
Ivan Danchev
Progress Telerik