Complex Filtering In Web Application?
Sep 18, 2010
I need to estimate (and probably build later on) complex filter in ASP.NET WebForms application. The filter has to be mostly based on ASP.NET AJAX or jQuery for high interactivity. The filter has to allow filtering data with complex logical conditions (and, or, braces) and several operators. A user has to be able to save the filter's query and use it (load it) later on (server logic). Moreover there is still discussion about in operator.
Application should provide some graphical filter builder. I want to have full control on set of operands (filtering fields) and operators. The component will be used for all filtering actions in application. My problem is only how to do the UI part - translation of builded "query structure" is not a problem.
Have you ever did something like that? Can you share some experience how to best and fastest build such component? Do I need to develop component or is there any existing one which has at least some of the functionality and can be extended to provide other functionality? Because I'm not very experienced with client side development, I don't know how complex task is developing such component from scratch.
Another possiblity is to define some meta query language and allow users to write the query to some query text box with support for building logical expressions. I have already checked available controls in DevExpress and Telerik toolkits:
DevExpress:
Pros: Really nice visualization, fast. We probably have DevExpress licences. Cons: Tightly coupled with DevExpress grid. Based on documentation no extensibility and no control over operands and operators. It uses operands provided as columns for grid - I need much more. Probably not possible to save and load filters.
Telerik:
Pros: Not coupled with grid, it looks like separate control. Cons: I didn't find documentation - I'm not sure about extensibility but the code looks like it uses some databind control as source of operands = problem. I don't like the visualization. Demo is really slow. We don't have Telerik licences.
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