Dropdown search field in Data Grid - Attribute selection problems

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Hi community, I would like to add a drop-down filter to my data grid for let’s say the attribute ‘Name’ (String) of my Entity ‘Person’. The free text search field works perfectly fine but when I add a drop-down, I can only select enumerations of my entity Test. How can I select the ‘Name’ attribute for the drop-down selection? Let’s say the Person entity is connected to other entities e.g. Adress. I am able to select the Name attribute of Test via the references. For example Person.Name/Adress.Street/Person.Name. If I do it that way, I am able to select the Name attribute in the front end with drop down. But if I select an attribute e.g. Peter which is listed in the grid and hit search, an empty list is shown. Any ideas how to make that work? Many thanks :)  
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It works with an extra entity ‘Person_Name’ which holds the content of ‘Name’ attribute.

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Hi Felix, You can try using  from the mendix appstore “autoCompleteSearch”

The thing is you need some other workaround on it-----to use this you should modify the datagrid to list view or even try to place the “autoCompleteSearch” outside of the grid

Hope this helps

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Felix, I have the same problem. No answers?

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Hi Massimo,

for some reason the dropdown filter is not working if you use the same entity like your data source of the grid is.

I created a new Helper entity connected to the other one, where I stored the data.

It not might be best practise but it works.

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