Using UI Controls in Crows Nest

Owned by Chris Phillips
Last updated: Oct 29, 2024
4 min read

Grid UI/UX Customization

Easy-to-use and highly customizable Grid

Many datagrids have been replaced throughout the desktop application with more easy-to-use and highly customizable grids. The more modern datagrids offer an array of UI customization features - so you can personalize your datagrids to meet your ever-changing needs.

Here are a few of the UI/UX customization options:

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Pop-up Context Menu

Group By this Column - Right-click any column and choose Group By This Column, or simply drag-and-dropping column headers to the “Group By Box”. Remove grouping by selecting “Ungroup” from the pop-up, or by dragging the header out of the “Group By Box”.

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Group By Columns

 

Rearranging Columns

You can rearrange the left-to-right order of your datagrid columns by simply selecting, then dragging-and-dropping the column where you want it to be.

 

Hiding/Removing Columns

There are a couple of ways that you can remove columns from your datagrid. Removing them doesn’t delete them. It simply removes or “hides” it from your view. When you hide a column, it’s stored on a Column Chooser palette, where it can be re-added to your datagrid at any time, by simply dragging it back to the datagrid.

  1. Right-click the column header and select Hide This Column from the pop-up context menu.

  2. Click, then drag the column header off of the datagrid.

 

 

The addition of UI data grids to Crows Nest extends the user experience. These grids facilitate customized views but also ensure optimized loading with sorting, filtering and grouping options..

Some examples of the Data Grid locations

The Global Drawing button

Timeclock Detail

Estimate Form

The Estimate form includes multiple implementations of the data grids, including Products, Sub-Products, Labor and Material tabs:

 

 

Grouping, Sorting and Filtering

The power of the data grids is readily apparent when we start grouping:

 

A grouping by Project is now on view:

We can simply drag the column back onto the grid to ungroup or right click to ungroup.

Filtering:

  • Hover over the column header to display the filter icon.

  • Click on the icon to display the filtering options.

  • Click on the filter icon again to clear the filtering.

 

 

Sorting:

  • Hover over the column header to sort the column.

  • Click on the icon to reverse the sort order.

  • Right click on the column header to clear the sorting.

 

 

 

Grid Options

Context menus (Right click) are available for column headers:

 

 

And cell options

 

 

Other options include the sequencing and display of the columns, drag a column header to the location in the grid. The column chooser can be accessed by right clicking on a column header.