Properties and methods that can be used on the client side to automate grid components.

Opens a grid component in a pop-up window, or in a DIV on the current page. This requires first defining a grid component.

Web publishing applications only. A grid component displays reads from and writes to your database and displays the data in a web page. The Grid Builder is a genie that you use to create grid components. The HTML Editor allows you to place grid components into A5W pages (an A5W page is a hybrid HTML/Xbasic page that is processed by the Application Server ). Grids have many optional capabilities that you can enable or disable through menus. Many properties of a new grid component have default properties. If you wish, you can set different default property values.

Guides on how to use the grid builder, grid properties and features, example pages, and more.

Placeholders, properties, and methods that can be used on the client-side to interact with UX components.

You can now customize the text that is displayed when the SQL Database reports an Insert, Update or Delete error. By default, Alpha Anywhere displays this text for an Update, Delete or Insert Error:

Steps and examples on how to do this are described in this page.

A guide to all of the options available in the grid component search part.

Covers a range of topics including selecting a database, creating a grid component, selecting data to use and display in the component, and how to view the component in a browser.

Often you will want to display a list of values selected from a table. It is often desirable to specifically order these entries, instead of allowing them to display in record order or alphabetically. Here is a technique for solving this problem. This example uses a drop down list box on a dialog component, but the technique works equally well with a list box on a grid component.