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Filter Elements

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Filter Elements allows you to filter the GridControl / TreeListControl‘s data. Filter Elements are separate controls within your application that automatically retrieve available values, format settings, and other information from the bound control.

Using Filter Elements, you can build your own UI to filter control data. As an example, here is a UI that uses Filter Elements for a filtering panel displayed next to the GridControl:

Run Demo: Filtering UI

Create a Filter Element

  1. Add a filter element (the FilterElement class descendants) to the markup.
  2. Set the attached FilterElement.Context property to associate the filter element with the GridControl‘s filter context.
  3. Specify the field name of the column you want to filter using the FilterElement.FieldName property.

The following code sample uses the CheckedListFilterElement to filter the GridControl‘s data by the City column values:

<Window ...
        xmlns:dxg="http://schemas.devexpress.com/winfx/2008/xaml/grid"
        xmlns:dxfui="http://schemas.devexpress.com/winfx/2008/xaml/core/filteringui">
    <dxg:GridControl x:Name="grid" ... />
    <!-- ... -->
    <dxfui:CheckedListFilterElement Context="{Binding FilteringContext, ElementName=grid}" FieldName="City"/>
</Window>

The image below shows the result:

Filter Element Types

Run Demo: Filtering

Filter Element

Description

CheckBoxFilterElement

 

Allows a user to filter by boolean values.

<dxfui:CheckBoxFilterElement FieldName="HasAttachment" />

RadioListFilterElement

 

Allows a user to select one filter value from a set.

<dxfui:RadioListFilterElement FieldName="Doors" />

CheckedListFilterElement

 

Allows a user to select multiple filter values from a set.

<dxfui:CheckedListFilterElement FieldName="TrademarkID" />

Use the SelectAllWhenFilterIsNull property to specify whether to select all filter values when the filter is null.

CheckedTreeListFilterElement

 

Allows a user to filter by hierarchical values.

<dxfui:CheckedTreeListFilterElement FieldName="SalesDate" />

PredefinedFiltersElement

 

Allows a user to apply a column’s Predefined Filters. Use the ColumnBase.PredefinedFilters property to specify predefined filters.

<dxfui:PredefinedFiltersElement FieldName="MPGCity" />

FormatConditionFilterElement

 

Allows a user to apply a column’s Conditional Formatting Filters. Use the TableView.FormatConditions / TreeListView.FormatConditions property to define conditional formatting rules.

<dxfui:FormatConditionFilterElement FieldName="UnitPrice"/>

RangeFilterElement

 

Allows a user to filter by numeric values.

<dxfui:RangeFilterElement FieldName="Price" />

DateRangeFilterElement

 

Allows a user to specify a date interval.

<dxfui:DateRangeFilterElement FieldName="SalesDate" />

CalendarFilterElement

 

Allows a user to filter by date values.

<dxfui:CalendarFilterElement FieldName="SalesDate" />

DatePeriodsFilterElement

 

Allows a user to apply predefined date filters.

<dxfui:DatePeriodsFilterElement FieldName="SalesDate" />

MultiFilterElement

 

Allows a user to choose filter conditions.

<dxfui:MultiFilterElement FieldName="SalesDate" />

ExcelStyleFilterElement

 

Consists of two tabs. The first tab allows a user to apply filter conditions. The second tab provides an Excel-style checklist.

<dxfui:ExcelStyleFilterElement FieldName="Employee" />

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