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Introduction

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Options Filter allows one to search base on a set of populated options.

One can search through the options through several mechanisms (See Display Type in the properties).

Options Filter Properties

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Figure 1: Options Filter Properties

NameDescription

Anchor
Display Type
Display Type
Display Type

Define on how the filter should be presented to the users.

  • Auto Complete
  • Multi Select Box
  • Select Box
  • Text Field
Warning
titlePerformance Warning

When any of Auto Complete, Multiple Select Box and Select Box type is selected, all possible select options will be loaded on page load. If you have thousands of select options or sourcing them from Options BinderData Store, this may cause significant increase on page load time.

Size (Multi Select Box)Control the height of filter when Display Type is set to Multi Select Box.
Default ValueDefault filter value
Options

Options to be made available for filter search.

Info
titleForeign key

If your column stores the foreign key to another form table, you can make use of this Options Filter and set the Options BinderData Store (i.e. Default Form Options BInderData Store) so that you can search by using the label column configured.

NameDescription
ValueOption Value
LabelOption Label
GroupingOption Grouping Value.
Or Choose Options BinderData Store

Options to be populated dynamically using Options Binder Data Store plugin.

Available options bindersData Stores:

Children Display
pageForm Options BinderData Store

Configuring any options binder Data Store here will ignore 'Options' property values (if any).

Warning
titlePerformance Warning

If you have thousands of select options or sourcing them from Options BinderData Store, this may cause significant increase on page load time. You may try to use grouping attribute below to selectively load required options.

Field ID to control available options based on Grouping
Dynamically change the available options based on the "grouping" attribute defined in the options by matching to the current value of the element ID defined.