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The easiest way to see how the Advanced Grid works is to use the existing built-in App Expenses Claims and create a new form to mimic an existing form in the app. Here are the steps:

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1. Start the Joget Server and open the App Center.
   
   
2. Log in as admin and click on the pencil icon on the Expenses Claim to open the Design App. (see Figure 1)
   
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3. Click on "Create new form" and fill up the Form Details as follows (see Figure 2):
   1. Form ID: advGrdTest
   2. Form Name: Advanced Grid Test
   3. Table Name: test
   
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4. Click on the Save button and you will be directed to the Form Builder.
   
   
5. Drag and drop the Advanced Grid element on to the canvas.
   
   
6. Hover the mouse over the Advanced Grid element on the canvas and click on Edit to open up the Edit Advanced Grid properties.
   
   
7. Fill up the Edit Advanced Grid properties as follows and click on OK (see Figure 3):
   1. ID : entries
   2. Form: Expense Claim Entry

   3. Columns : 

      Field ID*	Label	Format Type
      date	Date	Date
      category	Category
      purpose	Purpose
      amount	Amount	Decimal

   
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8. Click on Preview to open up the Preview tab, try clicking on each column in the Advanced Grid and notes each column's behavior. (see Figure 4)
   
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9. Open up Expense Claim Entry and note the Field ID's are the same as written in the Edit Advanced Grid. This is how the Advanced Grid mimics the targeted fields we listed in the step 7c from said target form. (see Figure 5)
   

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Advanced Grid Properties

Edit Advanced Grid

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UI

Grid

Name	Description

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Search

Enable search capability within the grid data itself.

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Readonly	Determines if the element is editable.
Disable Add Feature	Determines if a new row can be added.
Disable Delete Feature	Determines if a row can be removed.
Default Sorting Column Number (Start from 1)	Defines the column index to sort by default. This field accepts integers starting from 1 onwards only. Example: If the grid has 5 columns, inputting a "4" will sort the 4th column from the left in ascending order.
Delete confirmation message	Confirmation message when deleting a row.
Show Row Numbering?	Shows numbering on the grid.

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Editing

Name	Description

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Key to save cell

Keyboard key to use to determine when to save and move on to the next cell.

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Edit hint	Edit hint message.

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Paging

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Validation & Data Binder

Validation

Name	Description

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Validator	Attach a Validator plugin to validate the input value. Please see Form Validator. Info title When will validation takes place? Validation will take place whenever a form is submitted except when it is submitted as "Save as Draft".

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Unique Column	Column/Field ID to identify record ID.
Min Number of Row Validation (Integer)	Min Number of Row Validation (Integer)
Max Number of Row Validation (Integer)	Max Number of Row Validation (Integer)
Error Message	Error message to be shown when row requirements set above is not met.

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Data Binder

Name	Description

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Load & Save Binder

Load Binder allows you to customize the method for data retrieval to populate the advance grid in the form. Save Binder allows you to customize the method on how the advance grid row records are saved to. This option is empty by default. An empty binder means that the advance grid records will be saved/loaded as a JSON format in the parent form & database table. See the list of available Form Binders. The recommended binder to use is the Multirow Form Binder so that each record is saved into a child database table via a subform definition. The binder will update the foreign key "parent id" into each child record to point to the parent database table..

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