Filters with Filter Bar Support

The grid lets you filter the records that get displayed. This is very useful when dealing with large datasets.

For example, if you have a field called "Country", you could filter by a specific country. As another example, if you have a field called "Sales" you can filter records whose values are "< 100", etc.

Filters can be set programatically as well as during runtime. During runtime, the user can use the built-in filter bar that automatically comes up with combo boxes with possible values to filter by.

Clicking the 'Custom' option in the filter drop down pops up the custom filter dialog that lets you set advanced filter conditions.

Custom Filtering

The filtering feature can be used to customize the paging logic. Alphabetical paging, an example of customized paging can be implemented using this approach and is illustrated here.