This situation caused me to create an alternative to grid, which I will be publishing soon.
Having thought through the problem, I may look at submitting a patch to incorporate my approach. On Wednesday, August 1, 2012 4:14:48 PM UTC-4, Mike wrote: > > I'm also trying to get around this issue - anyone have any recommendations? > > On Monday, July 2, 2012 12:08:46 PM UTC-4, simon wrote: >> >> When you have a grid with a reference field then the search functionality >> does not work as expected. >> >> For example grid shows: >> >> Owner Dog >> John Basil >> >> However any search for John shows no records because the owner field is >> an integer in the database but has format set to display it as name. >> >> --

