appending static criteria to filterEditor criteria

[paulf]

What is the recommended way to append a static criteria {field1: 'val1', field2: 'val2'} to filterEditor criteria the user entered when filtering in a ListGrid? The static criteria may contain fields not shown in the ListGrid.

Tried ListGrid.setFilterEditorCriteria({field1: 'val1', field2: 'val2'}) but the appended criteria is not getting sent to the server.

Thanks
-pf

[Isomorphic]

Just setCriteria(). If the criteria is on a non-filtereEditor field, it will be automatically preserved as the user makes changes in the FilterEditor.

[paulf]

Tried ListGrid.setCriteria({field1: 'val1', field2: 'val2'}) but the appended criteria is still not getting sent to the server upon filtering.

I am doing this just after the ListGrid is created but before it is added to the layout. Does that make a difference?

-pf

[Isomorphic]

Is this perhaps an older version? We were referring to behavior from 8.1.

[paulf]

I'm on 8.0

[paulf]

Actually the snapshot is:

SmartClient_SC_SNAPSHOT-2011-10-25

-pf

[Isomorphic]

OK, can't tell what's specifically happening here without code, but one way to make it fail would be setCriteria(someCriteria) followed by an explicit call to fetchData() with no criteria.

Also, there are a couple of subtle bugs in 8.0 with respect to handling all the complex interactions between the criteria entered in the filterEditor vs hand-specific criteria, so we'd recommend an upgrade to 8.1.x if you want this handle automatically.

Another option is to add the criteria in DataSource.transformRequest().