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Fundamentals

Many of the pages and popups used throughout PSWeb use controls from DevExpress®. By far the most commonly used control is the Grid.

Rather than re-invent the wheel trying to document all the features you have at your disposal with these grids, we will refer you to the DevExpress's own end-user documentation for their mighty grid. You can find it here.

The DevExpress 'DevExtreme' grid can seem a little different from the one described in the DevExpress documentation so here are the differences to look out for:

• Adding a new record using our grids can normally be done in one of two ways. Either press the [+] button that appears toward the top-right of the grid - just above the grid's column-header row; or using the grid header's context menu. We don't normally provide both methods for a particular grid - so you can be sure that, if the grid permits a new row to be added, you will find one of these methods available.
• Our grids use icons to provide the means to edit or delete an existing row. For complex grids, the cell containing these icons will be at the left-side of each row that contains data. For simpler grids they remain to the right (the DevExpress default position).
• DevExpress grids provide three ways to edit data: in-line, using a generic pop-up form, or using a customized form. For the moment, we have gone for the in-line approach. They also provide two edit modes for in-line editing: single-row or batch. We have elected to go for single-row editing. Hence, when you press an icon to edit existing data, the icons in the command cell will change. Instead, the cell will contain a [Save] icon and a [Cancel] icon. Editing is restricted to the current row and ends when you click [Save] or [Cancel].