1.Hiding ToolTip in Search Fields
Step 1 : Click on the Operator icon in the ‘Search Result Configuration’ Pop-up.
Step 2 : Check the ‘Hide ToolTip’ option and click ‘Ok’ button as shown in Figure 2.
2.Find And Replace a value in Search control
This feature allows user to find and replace search result values.
Step 1 : Click on the Operator icon in the ‘Search Result Configuration’ Pop-up.
Step 2 : Check the ‘Enable’ option for ‘Find and Replace’ and enter the value which is to be found and the value which is to be replaced with in the ‘Find What’ and ‘Replace With’ field respectively as shown in figure 4.
Preview :
John | CEO | Florida | 56892 |
Figure 5 : Search view before Replacing.
John | Developer | Florida | 56892 |
Figure 6 : Search view after Replacing.
3.Changing Color of Search Header
The color of search header can be changed by using the rule ‘GridSetRowStyle’ , it has four parameters. They are Control Name , Property Name , Row Index , Value as shown in figure 7. The name of the Search control is to be given as the Control Name, Property Name is to be given as ‘BGColor’ , Row Index is given as ‘0’ since the row index of header is 0 . And Color code is to be given as Value. Figure 8a shows how to write the rule .
If we want to show the first row as header ,then check the option ‘Show Header As First Row’ as shown in Figure 8b. If we don’t want to show the header then Un-check the option ‘Show Header’ .
Preview :
Figure 8c shows the first row as header
4.Enable select in Search Control
This option enables the user to select each row in search control. As shown in figure 9 , check the option ‘Enable select’.
Preview :
After applying ‘Enable select’ Check-boxes are available in the first column of the search which helps the user to select each row in the search control.
5.Export To Excel in Search Control
This option allows the user to export the content in a search control in excel format . As shown in figure 11 , check the ‘Export To Excel’ option .
Preview :
As shown in the figure 12 , an icon appears at the bottom to the right corner, on clicking on which an xls file is created which can be saved or opened to view the contents of the search in an excel format.
6.Search On Load option in Search Control
Enable this option to fill the search control on FormLoad . This option helps to avoid writing rule to fill the search control on form-load .
7.Paging in Search Control
We can set the number of records to be displayed on a page in a search control by entering the number in the ‘page size’ field as shown in the figure 14 .
We can remove paging by checking the ‘Remove Paging’ Option as shown in the figure 15.
8.Trigger options in Search Control
Following trigger options are available in a search :
These options can be used to trigger the rule which is written on a search control.
To enable ‘Trigger on all Rows’ check the option as shown in figure 16. This option will trigger the rules on search when each row is selected
To enable ‘Trigger on link button click ‘ check the option as shown in figure 17. This option will trigger the rules on search when we click on the link button in the search.
To enable ‘Trigger on paging ‘ check the option as shown in figure 18. This option will trigger the rules on search when we click on the page button in the search.
9.Wrap Text in Search Control
This option can be used to wrap text contents in the search control. Enable this option by checking ‘Wrap Text ‘ as shown in figure 19.
Preview :
Figure 20 shows how the text content of search appears after applying ‘wrap Text’ .
10.Allow Clear in Search Control
This Option allows the clear functionality to clear all the rows from the search control. By default this option will be checked . If user don’t want to clear the search control then he should un-check the option ‘Allow Clear’.
11.Dynamic Height in Search Control
This option helps to adjust the height of the search dynamically according to the number of rows in the search i.e if the number of rows increased the height of search also will increase automatically.
12.Expand Grouping in Search Control
This option allow the user to view the grouped contents of the search in expanded form.
Figure 23 shows the grouped contents of the search when the ‘Expand Grouping’ option is not enabled
‘Expand Grouping’ option is Enabled by checking it.
Figure 25 shows the Expanded grouped contents of the search when the ‘Expand Grouping’ option is enabled.