setting a filter with an URL

[antonomaseParticipant]

Hi,

I have a grid with two columns Name and Address

$("#eta_jqxgrid").jqxGrid(
	{ 	source: eta_dataAdapter,
		sortable: true,
		pageable: true,
		pagesize: 20,
		showfilterrow: true,
		filterable: true,
		columns: [
			{text: 'Name', datafield: 'NAME', filtertype: 'textbox', filtercondition: 'contains'},
			{text: 'Address', datafield: 'ADDRESS', filtertype: 'textbox', filtercondition: 'contains'}
		]
	});

I want to have URLs like mysite.com?NAME=abcd&ADDRESS=1234 which filters the results on these two fields

I tried to put this after the reading of the rows in the database

var filtervalue = 'abcd';
var filtercondition = 'contains';
var filter = filtergroup.createfilter('stringfilter', filtervalue, filtercondition);
filtergroup.addfilter(1, filter);
$('#eta_jqxgrid').jqxGrid('addfilter', 'NAME', filtergroup);

But this does nothing.

Question 1 : why sometimes it must be filtertype = ‘textbox’ and sometimes filtertype = ‘stringfilter’ ?

Question 2 : How to do for this filter to work ?

Thanks for your answers

[Peter StoevKeymaster]

Hi antonomase,

The filtertype column property specifies the type of the filter widget in the filter row. The filter widget could be a textbox and that textbox could be used for entering the filter value for a “string”, “number”, “date” or a “boolean” column.

To apply a filter through the API, see this sample: filtering.htm.

Best Regards,
Peter Stoev

jQWidgets Team
http://www.jqwidgets.com

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