What is Grid and what it is used

UI Grid widget is a powerful control for visualization data in a tabular format. It support many Functionality, such as Sorting, Paging, Scrolling, Filtering, Grouping, Frozen Columns, Virtualization and export to PDF and Excel, which help the presentation and manipulation of data.

Let's look at how useful are different Functionality:

Sorting - sorting can be single and multiple, this functionality can remove the unsorting functionality of a grid by setting sorting

Paging - paging functionality is a lightweigh, very fast and highly customizable. It`s suitable for managing grids with large databases

Scrolling – It`s very useful for large databases when it`s necessary masked spaces with hidden content in your UI

Filtering – UI Grid allows for filtering of data

 

Grouping - The grid can be grouped by multiple columns by dragging and dropping grid columns in group header item. 

Frozen Columns - Some larger applications require static screens, the concept of frozen columns mostly known from MS Excel. UI Grid column freezing functionality for keeping certain columns visible while scrolling to other parts of the grid. Simply set the locked attribute of the corresponding column and this will bring the column in the locked columns group.

Virtualization - There are cases when you may need to operate with large amount of data in the grid, and fetching and processing this data at once would impose a performance penalty due to limited browser resources. This functionality displays a vertical scrollbar for the grid content and renders only the number of items set via the pageSize property of the grid data source.

Export  to PDF and Excel - When using grid, it is often useful and important to export your data to MS Excel in order to make it accessible offline, share it etc. This functionality can be overriden to customize the columns, types, formatting, rows and other options.

Here you can see examples of all these functionalities which Sield UI Grid supports