I have a ListGrid which is filled with ListGridRecords. The ListGridRecords are of a

[daliakamal]

Hello

I am using LGP SmartGWT 2.3 build (2010-12-9)

My model is :
Employee{
String employeeId;
String employeeName;
Department department;
}
Department {
String departmentCode;
String departmentName;
}

I have 2 datasource Employee and Department

I have a ListGrid of employee records,

I am displaying the department column in a ListGrid using the
CellFormater, GroupTitleRenderer, GroupValueFunction which works fine.

I create SelectItem for department column filter.

But if I filter value in my ListGrid for department column and press enter, nothing happens. This isn't surprising at all since the filter does not understand the department object.
How can I use filtering with custom data objects?

I managed to enable sorting this way:

departmentField.setSortNormalizer( new SortNormalizer() { @Override public Object normalize( ListGridRecord record, String fieldName ) { 
JavaScriptObject department = record.getAttributeAsJavaScriptObject("department");
return JSOHelper.getAttribute(department,"name");
} });

Maybe something similar exists for filtering?