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Introduction


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Advanced Grid is best described as a Grid with rich inline editing transformation.

Depending on the target field, the Advanced Grid element would mimic the original target type for accurate and richer data entry capability.

The Advanced Grid is only available on Professional and Enterprise Edition.


Get Started

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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NameDescription
Validator

Attach a Validator plugin to validate the input value. Please see Form Validator.

Info
titleWhen will validation takes place?

Validation will take place whenever a form is submitted except when it is submitted as "Save as Draft".

Unique ColumnColumn/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 store

NameDescription
Load Data From

Load Data From allows you to customize the method for data retrieval to populate the advance grid in the form.

Save Data To

Save Data To 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 data store 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 Data Store.

The recommended binder data store to use is the Multiple Form Row so that each record is saved into a child database table via a subform definition. The binder data store will update the foreign key "parent id" into each child record to point to the parent database table.

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