GridView filter form

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
1

There is a general problem with GridView filters.

It’s not uncommon to use GridView inside a form. Good example is a tabbed page, where first tab implement form with main model attributes and next tabs are for related models - and all tabs are within a form, so submit action sends all parameters at once.

GridView is used for information purpose, the end user can evaluate some data in a convenient way while filling forms.

But the problem is with GridView filters!

yii.gridView.js is as follows:

var $form = $('<form/>', {
      action: url,
      method: 'get',
      'class': 'gridview-filter-form',
      style: 'display:none',
     'data-pjax': ''
}).appendTo($grid);

The filter form element created dynamically is attached to grid element itself what results in nested form!

Why not .appendTo('body'); ???

That would result in leaner structure and nested forms would never be created!

3

I guess that’s because there could be multiple forms at the same page.

4

is there any workaround or solution for that. In my case, I have the tabbed structure and now problem to use the filters as described by Ziggi

5

Name these forms explicitly.

6

Thanks, but how should this work? There is no implementation in the parameter :-/

7

does anyone have example how to handle this problem?

8

nobody an idea :frowning:

9

I have used the below structure for enclosing grid view in the form. I don’t fully understand your use case, but hope this helps.

<?php $form = ActiveForm::begin(['action' => ['/some/index'], 'id' => 'some-form']); ?>
    <?= GridView::widget([
    ....
    ]); ?>
    <?= Html::submitButton('Do something') ?>
<?php ActiveForm::end(); ?>