Table View Tutorial. Step 3: Activate Auxiliary UI Elements

• Oct 23, 2025

In the previous steps you added a grid control to a form, bound its Table View to data, and configured a user-friendly display and layout. This section describes how to enable auxiliary UI elements in a Table View.

This topic explains how to display the following UI elements:

• “Quick Column Customization” Button
• View navigator
• Column header popup menu

Quick Column Customization Button

This button invokes a dropdown with a column checklist. You can reorder the columns and change their visibility.

Set the OptionsCustomize.ColumnsQuickCustomization property to True to add the button.

View Navigator

The View Navigator allows a user to navigate, add, remove, and filter rows.

Expand the Navigator property and enable the following options:

• Visible
• InfoPanel.Visible

Users can now interact with the View Navigator. Its “Information Panel” section displays the selector row’s index.

Column Header Popup Menu

The image below shows the pre-defined column header popup menu.

Add a TcxGridPopupMenu component to the form and assign cxGrid1 to the component’s Grid property.

Tip

Press Ctrl + H to hide non-visual components that can overlap the View’s content.

The next step describes how to enable your application to sort, filter, and format the displayed data.

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