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Bug Report T844590
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An Excel-inspired filter dropdown's Filters tab populates its combo boxes with edit values instead of images and/or descriptions for a column that uses cxImageComboBox as an in-place editor

created 5 years ago

Hi,

I'm trying to switch all grid views to use Filtering.ColumnPopupMode = fpmExcel, which looks good.

But I just noticed that for columns that are set up as TcxImageComboBoxProperties with TcxImageComboBoxItem's set to have hidden integer 'Value' with shown string 'Description':   it's now populating the filter Value Items using the integer value on the 'Text Filters' popup page, while the 'Values' page populates the Value Items using the string Descriptions like the old "fpmClassic" style used to.

With "fpmClassic" style, you could even click "(Custom…)" from the drop-down, and it launches the "Custom Filter" popup dialog, which again uses the desired "Description" for populating the combo box of Value Items found in the underlying records.

Is there any setting I missed, for the Excel-style filter popup to populate Values for the "Text Filters" page using descriptions rather than values?

Comments (3)
DevExpress Support Team 5 years ago

    Hello Justin,

    Thank you for your kind words about our modern filtering mode.

    I have reproduced this behavior with the attached sample project. We will check if we can find a way to make it use Image Combo Box editor instead so it will look better.

    May I make this ticket visible to all visitors of our web site?

    J J
    JWheel 5 years ago

      Sure, no problem. And even if you can't use the full editor to get images as well (if existing), just having a way of populating filter choices using the Description text instead of Value text would be helpful. We're using the TcxImageComboBox without any images on some columns, just for the combobox editor.

      DevExpress Support Team 5 years ago

        Thanks. I totally agree.

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        created 5 years ago

        We have fixed the issue described in this ticket and will include the fix in our next maintenance update. To apply this solution before the official update, request a hotfix by clicking the corresponding link for product versions you require.

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