Design Time Features
Essential Grid comes with a fully functional design time that lets you easily setup the look and feel and behavior of the grid. Data binding can be easily setup and the bound schema easily visualised and customised through the designer.
Data Binding
Data Binding is an essential feature when dealing with the GridGroupingControl. Callback options are available for refreshing the grid contents, when viewing them in the Web Browser. The bound grid is also flexible enough to perform runtime modifications in grouping. It listens to various database manipulation operations such as datagrid insert, datagrid edit, datagrid update and datagrid delete.
Grouping and Sorting
The Grouping Grid Control, once bound to a datasource, is flexible enough for performing engine related operations such as grouping and sorting. Grouping allows you to categorise the records based on a specific column. Through sorting, you can arrange the table data either in the ascending or in the descending order of the selected column values.
Ajax Features
Essential Grid comes with built-in AJAX support. Simply turn on the EnableCallback property to make the grid run in AJAX mode. Sorting, grouping, resising, etc. will then happen through AJAX callbacks instead of postbacks.
Appearance
A wide variety of styling options are available for various sections of GridGroupingControl such as grouped, filtered, header, footer, summary and nested cells and different states such as adding new record, alternate records, GroupIndentCells, etc.
Editing
Grid Grouping Control supports editing of records at run time. It offers different editing modes such as in-place editing, editing via forms, etc. to make the editing more user-friendly. Options for adding new records and deleting existing records are also available. If the datasource is updatable, the grid will automatically save the changes into the underlying datasource.
Paging and Filtering
The paging functionality available for the GridGroupingControl comes in handy when the grid rows exceed the limitations of a single page, which has been enabled by default. Filters, in the GridGroupingControl, enable users to select only a subset of records, based on some criteria and display them. The criteria can be set using a filterbar, both at runtime and design time.
Column Types
The Columns in GridGroupingControl provides flexible options for customisation. The TableDescriptor available for the GridGroupingControl includes the Columns Collection which is auto populated by the Fields and ExpressionFields collection.
Summary Rows and Columns
The GridGroupingControl provides options for the inclusion of summary rows for each group. The grid summaries are displayed in the summary rows. The summary rows can be added and defined using the GridSummaryRowDescriptor Collection Editor, that is available for the GridGroupingControl. Options for specifying the summary format and summarised columns are available.
Export Options
Essential Grid provides different export options that let you save its content in a number of output formats. Some of them have been discussed here.
Events
GridGroupingControl provides numerous events to aid you in creating interactive applications. Based on from where the grid data is recreated after the user actions, these events can be classified as 'Server-Side' and 'Client-Side' events.
Navigation Options
GridGroupingControl offers complete navigational support, for navigating between the grid cells, rows and pages. This is accomplished with the help of the navigational and pager bars, that can be added at design time, using the ButtonBars Collection.
Printing
GridGroupingControl offers complete support for printing the entire records along with groups, summaries, preview rows, etc.
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