Group Filter Checkboxes in Grid by Another Field

Environment

Product

Progress® Kendo UI® Grid for jQuery

Description

How to group the checkboxes in the filter menu by a specific field?

Solution

Although sorting the dataSource of the checkboxes is possible, applying group expression to it will break the built-in functionality of the Grid. However, you can sort the dataSource of the checkboxes by the field that you want to group by and manually insert group separators. In the following example, the entire logic for grouping the checkboxes is within the filterMenuOpen event of the Grid.

<style>
  .myGroupClass{
    background: #3bb;
    color: #fff;
    padding: 0 3px;
    line-height: 20px;
    font-size: 12px;
    border-radius: 5px;
  }
  </style>
    <div id="client"></div>
      <script>
        $(document).ready(function() {
          var crudServiceBaseUrl = "https://demos.telerik.com/service/v2/core/";
          $("#client").kendoGrid({
            dataSource: {
              transport: {
                  read:  {
                      url: crudServiceBaseUrl + "/Products"
                  },
                  update: {
                      url: crudServiceBaseUrl + "/Products/Update",
                      type: "POST",
              		contentType: "application/json"
                  },
                  destroy: {
                      url: crudServiceBaseUrl + "/Products/Destroy",
                      type: "POST",
              		contentType: "application/json"
                  },
                  create: {
                      url: crudServiceBaseUrl + "/Products/Create",
                      type: "POST",
              		contentType: "application/json"
                  },
                  parameterMap: function(options, operation) {
                      if (operation !== "read" && options.models) {
                          return kendo.stringify(options.models);
                      }
                  }
              },
              batch: true,
              pageSize: 20,
              schema: {
                model: {
                  id: "ProductID",
                  fields: {
                    ProductID: { editable: false, nullable: true },
                    ProductName: { validation: { required: true } },
                    UnitPrice: { type: "number", validation: { required: true, min: 1} },
                    Discontinued: { type: "boolean" },
                    UnitsInStock: { type: "number", validation: { min: 0, required: true } }
                  }
                }
              }
            },
            filterMenuOpen: function(e) {
              var fieldToSortBy = "Discontinued";
              if (e.field !== fieldToSortBy) {
                var filterMultiCheck = this.thead.find("[data-field=" + e.field + "]").data("kendoFilterMultiCheck")
                filterMultiCheck.container.empty();

                filterMultiCheck.checkSource.sort([{field: fieldToSortBy, dir: "asc"},{field: e.field, dir: "asc"}]);
                filterMultiCheck.checkSource.data(filterMultiCheck.checkSource.view().toJSON());
                filterMultiCheck.createCheckBoxes();

                var listItems = e.container.find("ul").children();
                var sortedItems = filterMultiCheck.checkSource.view().toJSON();
                var previousGroupValue = "";
                for(var i = 0; i < sortedItems.length; i++){
                   if(sortedItems[i][fieldToSortBy] !== previousGroupValue){
                     previousGroupValue = sortedItems[i][fieldToSortBy];
                     debugger;
                     $(listItems[i+1]).prepend("<li class='myGroupClass'>" + fieldToSortBy + ": " + previousGroupValue + "</li>");
                   }
                }
              }
            },
            filterable: true,
            pageable: true,
            height: 550,
            toolbar: ["create", "save", "cancel"],
            columns: [
              { field: "ProductName", filterable: { multi: true } },
              { field: "UnitPrice", title: "Unit Price", format: "{0:c}", width: 120, filterable: { multi: true } },
              { field: "UnitsInStock", title: "Units In Stock", width: 120, filterable: { multi: true } },
              { field: "Discontinued", width: 120, filterable: { multi: true, dataSource: [{ Discontinued: true }, { Discontinued: false }]} },
              { command: "destroy", title: "&nbsp;", width: 150}],
            editable: true
          });
        });
      </script>