SPGridView extend filter

Question

I'm working on a SharePoint Foundation. Since SPF doesn't provide Content Query Web Part, I'm trying to create a search webpart.

In the results gridview there is a column that will show the content type of an item. Is it possible for me to extend the filter to show all the fields define in a content type on mouse over. So that when the user mouse over on the content type and click on on of the displayed field, I will execute another search query with the property filter technique e.g. Title:"my resume"

Really appreciate any helps and suggestion.

Thanks

Answer 1

You would need for sure to built it yourself by attempting to attach your own coding to it.

This articles explains the mechanism triggering the filter behaviour http://ketulpatel.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/custom-filters-in-spgridview/, but as of yet (except probably when customizing the XSLTViewWebPart - which does not apply here) I haven't seen a hookup as you mentioned.

Hope it helps, C:\Marius

Answer 2

If you are extending your SPGridView in the manner shown on this article, you may have luck created a DataSource populated with the Content Types which you can query from the SharePoint API.