Built-in

A standard declaration of the RadFilter control looks like this:

ASPNET

<telerik:RadFilter RenderMode="Lightweight" runat="server" ID="RadFilter1" Skin="Black">
    <FieldEditors>
        <telerik:RadFilterTextFieldEditor FieldName="Field1" />
        <telerik:RadFilterNumericFieldEditor FieldName="Field2" DataType="System.Int32" />
        <telerik:RadFilterBooleanFieldEditor FieldName="Field3" />
    </FieldEditors>
</telerik:RadFilter>

The most important part of it are the FieldEditors. Each field editor declares a field, which will be correlated with a filter expression, for example:

([Field1] = '7')

In the code snippet above, we have declared three such RadFilterTextFieldEditors. Each one of them will be available as an option in the filter control. For example, one can choose a field, a filter option (e.g. "EqualTo") and a value, when building the filter expression, as demonstrated in the screenshot below:

Please note that when the FilterContainerID or the DataSourceControlID property is set, the RadFilter generates the field editors automatically.

Field editors types

There are four types of build-in field editors:

1. RadFilterBooleanFieldEditor - this denotes a Boolean field. For a Boolean field, the filter list options are limited to EqualTo, NotEqualTo, IsNull and NotIsNull, followed by a checkbox, which would hold the true/false filter value, depending on its checked state.

2. RadFilterNumericFieldEditor - denotes a numeric field. It has more Filter options than the Boolean field, but the options are still limited to a numeric input - for example GreaterThan and LessThan. The input control, which is rendered is a numeric one, which limits the user input to numeric values only.

3. RadFilterTextFieldEditor - this field accepts any type of user input - alphabetical and numeric. It renders a standard textbox, which does not pose any restrictions on the user input. This filter type has the largest array of filter options.

4. RadFilterDateFieldEditor - this field allows the construction of a filter targeting dates. In addition to the field named and filter option, it renders a datetimepicker, which facilitates the selection of a date, and validates the user input, to ensure that a valid date is passed as the filter value.

5. RadFilterMaskedTextBoxEditor - allows to enter values for filtering using a RadMaskedTextBox control.

6. RadFilterDropDownEditor - allows the user to filter by predefined values which can be selected from a dropdown.

Additionally, you can create custom field editors as it is described here.

Common properties of the field editors

The following table lists the common properties of the field editors:

 

Property	Description
DataType	Gets or sets the type of the data of the field.
DisplayName	Gets or sets the name displayed for the field.
ToolTip	Gets or sets the ToolTip property of the editor control
DefaultFilterFunction	Gets or sets the default filter function that will be set to the editor item when it is first created.
FieldName	Gets or sets the name of the field. This property will be used when the filter expression is built.
PreviewDataFormat	Gets or sets preview data format for the editor. This property will be used to format the value per editor when ExpressionPreviewPosition is different than RadFilterExpressionPreviewPosition.None

Properties of the RadFilterDateFieldEditor

Represents an editor used for filtering fields of DateTime type.

 

Property	Description
MinDate	Gets or sets the MinDate of the RadDatePicker control.
PickerType	Gets or sets what type of date control will be created. The default value is DateTimePicker.
DateFormat	Gets or sets the DateFormat and DisplayDateFormat that will be applied to the control.

Properties of the RadFilterDropDownEditor

Represents an editor for populating predefined items to be filtered using a drop down control

 

Property	Description
DropDownType	Gets or sets the type of drop down control which will be created. The default value is RadDropDownList.
DataTextField	Gets or sets the DataTextField property value of the drop down control created by the editor.
DataValueField	Gets or sets the DataValueField property value of the drop down control created by the editor.
DataSourceID	Gets or sets the DataTextField property value of the drop down control created by the editor.

Properties of the RadFilterMaskedTextBoxEditor

Represents an editor for filtering values using a RadMaskedTextBox control.

 

Property	Description
Mask	Gets or sets the Mask property of the RadMaskedTextBox control.
DisplayMask	Gets or sets the DisplayMask property of the RadMaskedTextBox control.
PromptChar	Gets or sets the PromptChar property of the RadMaskedTextBox control.
DisplayPromptChar	Gets or sets the DisplayPromptChar property of the RadMaskedTextBox control.

Properties of the RadFilterNumericFieldEditor

Represents an editor used for filtering fields of numeric type.

 

Property	Description
NumericType	Gets or sets the NumericType property of the RadNumericTextBox control.
AllowRounding	Gets or sets the NumberFormat.AllowRounding property of the RadNumericTextBox control.
KeepNotRoundedValue	Gets or sets the NumberFormat.KeepNotRoundedValue property of the RadNumericTextBox control.
DecimalDigits	Gets or sets the NumberFormat.DecimalDigits property of the RadNumericTextBox control.

Properties of the RadFilterTextFieldEditor

Represents the field editor in RadFilter used to build filter expressions for string values.

 

Property	Description
TextBoxWidth	Gets or sets the TextBox width in pixels.

Properties of the RadFilterBooleanFieldEditor

Represents an editor used for filtering fields of boolean type.

 

Property	Description
DataType	Gets the type of the field that is filtered using this editor.