Another quick post for today, since it’s one of the most asked questions “will you have an Ext editable grid in the framework”, the short answer is “Yes” and it won’t be long, so I thought I’d give you a quick preview of our progress thus far (I’ve started by focusing on date columns first, the ID columns will shortly be turned into LOV/combo fields).

The great thing is that we can reuse almost all the functionality defined from our read only grid, e.g. pagination, filtering, expander rows, grouping, plus supporting all of the customizations like headings, sorting alignment, conditions, authorizations etc. We base the editable grid on an APEX tabular form and reset all the fields/columns to “Standard Report Columns”, so we get reuse the setup work that APEX does for us, primary key info etc. which we’ll need when we process the data. We’ll be using an enhanced technique similar to the properties grid to update/save the data.

We will be aiming to support: customizable vtype validations, LOV definitions, and also introduce cascading LOV support all out of the box. So watch this space…. I’ll be following up a little bit later with another post including some technical information about how to do it.

P.S. early next year we’ll be upgrading to Ext 3.1 and taking advantage of some of the nice features like row editing.