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Overview

In this lesson, we will learn how to create a “Grid Search” control under the page form. This option allow us to create a Search field embedded on a column that we can fill with information from our Database through a dataset. This is another easy way to make an association between tables or stored procedures previously generated to print the registers in the project’s application.

How to create a Dataset for “Grid Search” control?

“Grid Search” control has a similar process than other controls that we learnt in previous lessons (e.g. Dynamic Grid), they have to establish a connection with tables or stored procedures based on datasets.

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After execution is done, turn to Wayfast and select any page from the project.

Focus on “Dataset” section and click on “New Dataset” button to create a new one that will contain the information from the Stored Procedure.

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This is the correct way to create a dataset based on Stored Procedures in Wayfast.

How to create a “Grid Search” control in Wayfast?

Now that have all the preconditions generated, we can start the “Grid Search” control creation by selecting the control and clicking on “New” button in the same page that we worked on for Dataset.

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Inside the grid, we have the column related to the “Grid Search” control and based on the input text, we can find results and select the option to complete the information.

Recap

We used to create “Search” fields separately as control in our pages, this new “Grid Search” control give us the possibility to create a search field inside our grid view as part of a single grid column to fill in the information for each specific row in your application.