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Sunday, September 26, 2010PrintSubscribe
Search Bar and Advanced Adaptive Filters

We are pleased to announce immediate availability of automatic Search Bars and Advanced Adaptive Filters. You can try these feature live at http://codeontime.com/demo.aspx.

Automatic Search Bars

A search bar can be activated if you click on the icon on the left side of the Quick Find search box.

First three data fields in a grid view are automatically listed in the search bar. Each field is provided with type sensitive options and input fields to enter a sample value. If there is a filter applied to a grid view then the search bar will feature all current filter options preselected on it.

Input fields for text data fields offer predictive text input and automatic adaptive filter options. You can see this features activated in the screenshot below.

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The following screen shot shows the search bar with more fields activated on it.

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The screen shot below shows the collapsed search bar.

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Quick Find

Code On Time applications also feature multi-word Quick Find in all grid views. You can enter multiple search criteria that are automatically searched in all compatible data fields of your grid view.

The screen shot below shows all products with number 40 and text biscuit matched to the visible data rows.

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Quick Find is the default search option in grid views.

Advanced Adaptive Filters

Adaptive filters were significantly enhanced and offer expanded type-sensitive filter options.

This screen shot shows text filtering options in the Ship City field.

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Here is the list of filter options available for Date fields if you active the context menu in the header of the field.

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Summary

Advanced Adaptive Filters and Quick Find are included in all levels of subscription.

Automatic Search Bars are available to Premium and Unlimited subscribers only.

Please review the complete subscription feature matrix at http://codeontime.com/products.aspx.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010PrintSubscribe
Database Object Selector

Code On Time generator creates database web applications that allow working with all tables and views of your data store. You can limit the number of data objects in your application by excluding those that are not needed in Designer.

The new option allows specifying the scope of your project on Database Connection page of the project wizard.

The following picture shows the project that will include all tables and views.

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Click on “Select the database tables and views included in the project” link and database object selector will be presented.

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Make your selection and click OK button.

Continue until you reach the summary of data controllers.

If you are testing this feature with Northwind database then you will see a substantially shorter list of database objects included in the project.

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Here is the generated ASP.NET 4.0 web application.

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Monday, August 2, 2010PrintSubscribe
Disabling Action on Specific Pages

Q.  How can I disable the New and Delete button on any particular page.

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Consider using WhenHRef property of data controller actions. Open the data controller definition in Designer, select Actions tab and activate the action. The action property WhenHRef must represent a valid regular expression.

For example, If you want to use New and Delete actions on pages ~/Pages/Page1.aspx and ~/Pages/Page2.aspx only then the following syntax will work.

Page1|Page2

The assumption is made that the same data controller is present on both pages. You can use any valid regular expression to create a URL test.  The expression will be tested against the URL in the web browser address box. A more precise and complex expression may look as the one below:

/Pages/Page(1|2)\.aspx

If there are other pages that use the same data controller and you want to prevent New and Delete actions from displaying on Page1 and Page2 but have them available on all other pages then we recommend to use an extension to regular expression syntax. Simply put "false:" in front of your expression:

false:Page1|Page2

The prefix in the example above is not a part of regular expression definition and is used to make it easier writing negative regular expression then would have been required otherwise.