Dialog Support

Dialog Window in Web Page

Essential Tools MVC now comes with dialog support for displaying a dialog window or widget within a Web page. The dialog widget allows you to display a message, supplementary content (like images or text), and interactive content (like forms). One highlight of the widget is that you can add buttons (Ok, Cancel, etc.) to the dialog window and define callback functions that react when the buttons are clicked.

Client- Side Validator

Validator

Client-Side Validator for Essential Tools supports client-side validation for a number of built-in expressions and custom validation expressions. The Validator throws an error when invalid formats are entered.

Rich Text Editor Toolbar Items

Rich Text Editor

The Rich Text Editor control in Essential Tools now allows you to disable individual toolbar items from both the server side and client side, thereby impairing the toolbar function. The toolbar item, once disabled, cannot be activated by clicking the icon or using shortcut keys.

Support for Filtering data

Grid with Filtered Data

Essential Grid for ASP.NET MVC now provides data-filter support, letting you call out only the required data. Each filter also comes with filter-bar support for displaying relevant records, which is very useful when dealing with large amounts of data.

Filter options are automatically populated based on field values present in the records.

Support for Grid and Individual Column Width

Grid with Scroll Bars

Essential Grid now allows you to specify the width and height of a grid. This allows the scrolling feature to be used to its fullest extent, enabling a grid to be scrolled manually. Also, the width property in the Column Builder can be used to set the individual width of a grid column during design time or run time.

Passing values through Querystring

QueryParam property allow user to pass and share the value between grid actions. Grid internally set the all mapping action name from its parent action name.The value passed in QueryParam is shared among all other Grid actions like Pagingrequest, Sorting request, Grouping request, Group expand request and Filtering request.

Chart Zooming

Chart Area Zoom

Chart zooming is an interactive feature that allows users to select a region to be zoomed. Zooming out can be performed through the Reset button, which is present in the scroll bar

Printing Support

Printed Chart

Essential Chart now supports printing. Users can also print a chart while it is in a zoomed state.

Radar Chart

Radar Chart

A radar chart is a clock-face form of a line chart. It represents each data series as a line around a central point. This is also an ideal chart to use when categories have a natural cyclic order, for example, seasons of the year.

Polar Chart

Polar Chart

A polar chart is a circular graph upon which data is displayed as values and angles. It allows a visual comparison between several quantitative or qualitative aspects of data, which aids in visually comparing several data points that are drawn with the same axes (poles).

Gauge Core Features

GaugeCoreFeatures

Customization of Maximum, Minimum, MajorInterval, MinorInterval values, Radius, Start and GapSweep Angles of Circular Gauge.

Gauge Pointer Features

GaugePointerFeatures

Essential Gauge Supports Customization of Pointers. Pointer Length, Width, Shape, Location can be customized.

Gauge Range Features

GaugeRangeFeatures

Essential Gauge Supports Customization of Ranges. Range Start value, End Value, End Width, Start Width, Location can be easily customized.

Gauge Scale and Indicator Features

GaugeScaleFeatures

Essential Gauge Supports Customization of Scales. Scale Radius, Label Distance, BackGround Color of Scales can be easily customized. Customization of Indicator BackGround Color according to the Current State of the Pointer.

Gauge TickMark Features

GaugeTickFeatures

Essential Gauge Supports Customization of TickMarks. Tick Shape, Width, Height, Position, BackGround Color can be easily Customized.

Gauge ViewFormatting Features

ViewFormatting Features

Essential Gauge supports configuration of Gauge in Aspx code in the View Page also. Entire Gauge model can be customized in View Page itself. Gauge control can be tailored in model in controller page by setting its properties as well as in view pages by initializing its properties.

View Type for an Appointment

View Types

Essential Schedule supports three view types: day, week, and workweek.

• Day View – This schedule displays an hour-by-hour view of a single day.
• Week View – This schedule displays an hour-by-hour view of a single week.
• Workweek View – This schedule displays an hour-by-hour view for a single workweek.

CRUD Features

CRUD Appointment Window

Essential Schedule lets users create, read, update, and delete an appointment at run time in the appointment window.

Resize Appointments

Resizing Appointments

Essential Schedule supports resizing appointments, which changes the time interval for an appointment by reducing or extending it.

Dragging Appointments

Dragging Appointments

Essential Schedule supports dragging appointments to any valid date on the scheduler, allowing appointments to easily be rescheduled.

Skins

New Skins

To customize the appearance of the schedule control, Essential Schedule supports several built-in skins. The Skins property can be used to change the appearance of the control by allowing you to set predefined skins. Some of the skins available are Office 2007 Blue, Vista, Office 2007 Silver, and Office 2007 Black.