If you choose a date/time format that does not include seconds for a grid text field, but store seconds in the DATETIME field in your database, you can encounter write conflicts if the stored values have non-zero seconds. For example, you might choose this as your date/time format:

The Grid component does not allow you to base a Grid on a stored procedure prior to V11. You must specify a SQL Select statement. You can however work around this limitation to a limited degree if your Grid is readonly.

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

Group breaks are a useful way to organize records in a Grid Component. You can add special directives that enable a user to expand or collapse records in a group in a Grid component.

Records in a Grid component can be configured to display as "forms", similar to the type of layouts you can create in the UX Component.

Advanced uses might want to use the Tab and Accordion control's onDynamicLoad property to define a Javascript event that will fire when the particular tab/accordion pane gets focus for the first time. This allows you to load dynamic content into the tab/accordion pane only when the pane is visited. If the pane is never visited, then you do not waste time and server resources computing content that will not be seen. As the image below shows, the third pane (labeled 'DynamicLoad') does not have any controls in it. When the user visits the tab pane, the onDynamicLoad function will fire and it will be set the tab pane content.

In a Grid component if you have the Security Framework enabled and the user does not have permission to update data, the input controls are still enabled even though the user will not be able to save any edits. It might be desirable to disable input controls when the user does not have update permission.

Fade out messages are commonly used to notify the user when an action has completed. You can add them to your applications using Action Javascript.

Logical values stored in a database can have three states: true, false, or NULL. Representing these three values can be done using checkboxes.

A field in a table may contain an image or the file location of an image (an image reference field). This example shows how to display these two types of images.

If a Grid Component can be used to add new records, the button used to display the new record rows or detail view for adding a new record can be dynamically shown or hidden. This is done by either using Action Buttons or adding HTML to the Grid component's layout so that JavaScript can be used to toggle the display of the add new records link.

Individual rows in a Grid Component can be exported to an Excel file using the Checkbox Selector Column to filter the Grid Component before performing the export.

Records in a Grid Component can be exported to Excel or Ascii using built-in features of the Grid Component or Action Javascript.

Argument arrays, combined with the SQL IN clause, are a powerful way to filter records shown in a Grid component.

Learn how to filter records in a Grid component based on the currently logged in user using the "USERID" field from the Extended User Information table.

Properties of the Grid Component can be overridden at run-time when the Grid is being loaded on an .a5w page or in the Grid Component's onGridExecute server-side event.

Data in an Excel file or comma delimited Ascii file can be imported into a Grid Component based on a table in a database.

If you Grid does a callback that takes some time (e.g. searching a large database), you might want to put up a custom 'working...' message.

The default values for new Grid components can be configured. This is particularly useful if you are developing many Grid components that need to suppport multiple languages or are always making the same set of changes to every new Grid Component.

Built-in system fields used for defining client-side expressions can be used in Javascript functions using the {grid.object}._getGridVariables method to get the variables from the Grid Component.

This topic discusses an advanced use of a Custom Control in a Grid component.