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Sneak peek: improvements for the VCL pivot grid (coming in v2011.1)

     

The VCL team are readying the VCL subscription v2011.1 Release Candidate for this week. Depending on customer feedback of this RC, we shall be releasing the actual v2011.1 soon thereafter.

In this RC, there have been a few improvements to the pivot grid.

1. There is a new compact layout for the grid, aimed at improving the user experience. Here’s the before and after look and feel (click for the full image):

CompactLayoutStyle

You activate it by setting OptionsView.RowTotalsLocation to rtlTree.

2. We’ve added a new Advanced Customization Form, to allow users, especially advanced users, a way to more easily customize the look of the pivot grid.

CustomizationForm

3. Not only that but we’ve improved the access to the normal customization form and the advanced form, by allowing them to be embedded in the pivot grid.

CustomizationFormEmbedded

You can use the slider to the left of the grid to cover or expose the embedded customization forms.

Published Apr 05 2011, 12:41 PM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)
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LasseM said:

Excellent

April 5, 2011 5:09 PM
 

Raoulw said:

Great work! Becoming almost identical to the Winforms counterpart!

April 5, 2011 5:44 PM
 

Rodrigo Coelho said:

Finally...

April 5, 2011 7:44 PM
 

Iskandar Achmad said:

Yes...

This is one of that I've been waiting for

I have my doubt that it will going for 2nd release, but It's here now.

Great work!

April 6, 2011 2:08 AM
 

Michael Thuma said:

Thank you!

We will have a sharp look - like!

Mike

April 6, 2011 7:29 AM
 

David Le Franc said:

Excellent news!

April 6, 2011 10:14 AM
 

Elias Zurschmiede said:

good news, very nice!

April 6, 2011 10:52 AM
 

Ilya Nenashev said:

Now waiting for hierarhycal dimensions!

April 6, 2011 4:20 PM
 

Doug Malcolm said:

Excellent. Thank you VCL team.

April 6, 2011 4:22 PM
 

Stephen Gibbs said:

Looks great!

Any chance of being able to set a column's group interval and group interval range by right-clicking the field?

April 6, 2011 5:53 PM
 

Django Dunn said:

Can't wait!

@Stephen - there is code available in the kb for implementing the group intervals.  The ranges could be handled similarly I would expect.

April 6, 2011 8:33 PM
 

Kalem said:

Nice to hear improvments. Devexpress shouldn't be fall behind VCL market place. There are many

April 7, 2011 4:27 AM
 

Yeimi Osorio Valladares said:

Perfect

September 6, 2011 12:41 PM

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Julian is the Chief Technology Officer at Developer Express. You can reach him directly at julianb@devexpress.com. You can also follow him on Twitter with the ID JMBucknall.
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