Introduction

In this article, we will see how we can group the data in datatable plugin, using MVC 5, EF, and AngularJS.

Today, my requirement is to develop a Grid that allows us to display customers’ data by each country. As I said before, we will use MVC application in Visual Studio 2015 to achieve our goal.

Prerequisites

We are going to use datatable plugin for grouping the customers’ data in our MVC application. For this, you must have Visual Studio 2015 (.NET Framework 4.5.2) and SQL Server.

SQL Database part

Here, you can find the scripts to create database and table.

Create Database
  1. USE [master]
  2. GO
  4. /****** Object: Database [CustomerDB] Script Date: 9/11/2016 4:54:28 AM ******/
  5. CREATE DATABASE [CustomerDB]
  6. CONTAINMENT = NONE
  7. ON PRIMARY
  8. ( NAME = N'CustomerDB', FILENAME = N'c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\CustomerDB.mdf' , SIZE = 3072KB , MAXSIZE = UNLIMITED, FILEGROWTH = 1024KB )
  9. LOG ON
  10. ( NAME = N'CustomerDB_log', FILENAME = N'c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\CustomerDB_log.ldf' , SIZE = 1024KB , MAXSIZE = 2048GB , FILEGROWTH = 10%)
  11. GO
  13. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET COMPATIBILITY_LEVEL = 110
  14. GO
  16. IF (1 = FULLTEXTSERVICEPROPERTY('IsFullTextInstalled'))
  17. begin
  18. EXEC [CustomerDB].[dbo].[sp_fulltext_database] @action = 'enable'
  19. end
  20. GO
  22. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET ANSI_NULL_DEFAULT OFF
  23. GO
  25. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET ANSI_NULLS OFF
  26. GO
  28. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET ANSI_PADDING OFF
  29. GO
  31. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET ANSI_WARNINGS OFF
  32. GO
  34. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET ARITHABORT OFF
  35. GO
  37. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET AUTO_CLOSE OFF
  38. GO
  40. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET AUTO_CREATE_STATISTICS ON
  41. GO
  43. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET AUTO_SHRINK OFF
  44. GO
  46. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS ON
  47. GO
  49. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET CURSOR_CLOSE_ON_COMMIT OFF
  50. GO
  52. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET CURSOR_DEFAULT GLOBAL
  53. GO
  55. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL OFF
  56. GO
  58. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET NUMERIC_ROUNDABORT OFF
  59. GO
  61. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF
  62. GO
  64. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET RECURSIVE_TRIGGERS OFF
  65. GO
  67. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET DISABLE_BROKER
  68. GO
  70. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS_ASYNC OFF
  71. GO
  73. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET DATE_CORRELATION_OPTIMIZATION OFF
  74. GO
  76. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET TRUSTWORTHY OFF
  77. GO
  79. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION OFF
  80. GO
  82. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET PARAMETERIZATION SIMPLE
  83. GO
  85. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT OFF
  86. GO
  88. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET HONOR_BROKER_PRIORITY OFF
  89. GO
  91. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET RECOVERY SIMPLE
  92. GO
  94. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET MULTI_USER
  95. GO
  97. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET PAGE_VERIFY CHECKSUM
  98. GO
  100. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET DB_CHAINING OFF
  101. GO
  103. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET FILESTREAM( NON_TRANSACTED_ACCESS = OFF )
  104. GO
  106. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET TARGET_RECOVERY_TIME = 0 SECONDS
  107. GO
  109. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET READ_WRITE
  110. GO
Create Table
  1. USE [CustomerDB]
  2. GO
  4. /****** Object: Table [dbo].[Customers] Script Date: 9/11/2016 4:53:43 AM ******/
  5. SET ANSI_NULLS ON
  6. GO
  8. SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
  9. GO
  11. SET ANSI_PADDING ON
  12. GO
  14. CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Customers](
  15. [CustomerID] [int] NOT NULL,
  16. [CustomerName] [varchar](50) NULL,
  17. [CustomerEmail] [varchar](50) NULL,
  18. [CustomerZipCode] [int] NULL,
  19. [CustomerCountry] [varchar](50) NULL,
  20. [CustomerCity] [varchar](50) NULL,
  21. CONSTRAINT [PK_Customers] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
  22. (
  23. [CustomerID] ASC
  24. )WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
  25. ) ON [PRIMARY]
  27. GO
  29. SET ANSI_PADDING OFF GO
After creating the table, you can add some records for Demo as shown below.



Create your MVC application

Open Visual Studio and select File >> New Project. The New Project window will pop up. Select ASP.NET Web Application (.NET Framework), name your project, and click OK.



The next step is to select the template. In this example, we need to choose MVC template and click OK.



Now, we are going to add ADO.NET Entity Data Model. Let’s do it.

Adding ADO.NET Entity Data Model

For adding ADO.NET Entity Framework. Right click on the project name, click Add >> Add New Item. Opens up a pop-up window.
Inside Visual C#, select Data >> ADO.NET Entity Data Model, and enter the name for your Dbcontext model as DbContextCustomer. Finally, click Add.



Now, we are going to choose EF Designer from database, as show below.



After clicking Next button, a new dialog box will pop up with the name Connection Properties. You need to enter your server name here. In order to connect to a database panel, select your database (Customer DB) via dropdown list. Then, click OK.





Now, Entity Data Model Wizard will pop up for choosing the object which we want to use. In our case, we choose Customers table and click Finish button. Finally, we see that EDMX model generates Customer class.



Create a Controller

Right click on the Controllers folder > Add > Controller> select "MVC 5 Controller – Empty" > click Add.



Enter Controller name (‘CustomerController’).



CustomerController.cs
  1. using System;
  2. using System.Collections.Generic;
  3. using System.Linq;
  4. using System.Web;
  5. using System.Web.Mvc;
  7. namespace Data_Grouping_in_AngularJS.Controllers
  8. {
  9. public class CustomerController : Controller
  10. {
  11. //dbContext
  12. private CustomerDBEntities context = new CustomerDBEntities();
  15. // GET: Customer
  16. public ActionResult Index()
  17. {
  18. return View();
  19. }
  21. public JsonResult GetCustomerList()
  22. {
  23. var CustomerList = from c in context.Customers
  24. select new
  25. {
  26. c.CustomerCountry,
  27. c.CustomerName,
  28. c.CustomerEmail,
  29. c.CustomerZipCode,
  30. c.CustomerCity
  31. };
  33. return Json(CustomerList, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
  34. }
  35. }
  36. }
As you can see, I am creating GetCustomerList() action to retrieve the data from Customers table in JSON format.

Adding View

Right click on Index() action, select Add View. In the popped up dialog box, write a name for your View. Finally, click Add.



Note: - Don’t forget to download the following libraries from jqxwidgets.
  1. <!-- CSS -->
  2. <link href="~/Content/jqx.base.css" rel="stylesheet" />
  3. <!-- JS -->
  4. <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.4.7/angular.min.js"></script>
  5. <script src="~/Scripts/jquery-1.10.2.min.js"></script>
  6. <script src="~/Scripts/jqxcore.js"></script>
  7. <script src="~/Scripts/jqxdata.js"></script>
  8. <script src="~/Scripts/jqxangular.js"></script>
  9. <script src="~/Scripts/jqxbuttons.js"></script>
  10. <script src="~/Scripts/jqxscrollbar.js"></script>
  11. <script src="~/Scripts/jqxdatatable.js"></script>
  12. <script src="~/Scripts/demos.js"></script>
Index.cshtml
  1. @{
  2. ViewBag.Title = "Index";
  3. }
  5. @section scripts{
  7. <!-- CSS -->
  8. <link href="~/Content/jqx.base.css" rel="stylesheet" />
  9. <!-- JS -->
  10. <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.4.7/angular.min.js"></script>
  11. <script src="~/Scripts/jquery-1.10.2.min.js"></script>
  12. <script src="~/Scripts/jqxcore.js"></script>
  13. <script src="~/Scripts/jqxdata.js"></script>
  14. <script src="~/Scripts/jqxangular.js"></script>
  15. <script src="~/Scripts/jqxbuttons.js"></script>
  16. <script src="~/Scripts/jqxscrollbar.js"></script>
  17. <script src="~/Scripts/jqxdatatable.js"></script>
  18. <script src="~/Scripts/demos.js"></script>
  20. <script type="text/javascript">
  22. var myApp = angular.module('myApp', ['jqwidgets']);
  23. myApp.controller('GroupingCtrl',['$scope', function ($scope) {
  25. //create AngularJS DataTable
  26. $scope.gridSettings = {
  28. source: new $.jqx.dataAdapter({
  30. dataType: "json",
  31. dataFields: [
  33. { name: 'CustomerCountry', type: 'string' },
  34. { name: 'CustomerName', type: 'string' },
  35. { name: 'CustomerEmail', type: 'string' },
  36. { name: 'CustomerZipCode', type: 'int' },
  37. { name: 'CustomerCity', type: 'string' }
  39. ],
  40. url: 'GetCustomerList'
  43. }),
  44. pageable: true,
  45. altRows: true,
  46. sortable: true,
  47. groups: ['CustomerCountry'],
  48. width: 850,
  49. groupsRenderer: function (value, rowData, level) {
  50. return "Country : " + value;
  51. },
  52. columns: [
  54. { text: 'Customer Country', cellsAlign: 'left', align: 'left', dataField: 'CustomerCountry', width: 130 },
  55. { text: 'Customer Name', cellsAlign: 'left', align: 'left', dataField: 'CustomerName', width: 180 },
  56. { text: 'Customer Email', dataField: 'CustomerEmail', cellsAlign: 'right', align: 'right', width: 250 },
  57. { text: 'Customer ZipCode', dataField: 'CustomerZipCode', align: 'right', cellsAlign: 'right', width: 110 },
  58. { text: 'Customer City', cellsAlign: 'center', align: 'center', dataField: 'CustomerCity' }
  59. ]
  61. };
  63. }]);
  66. </script>
  68. }
  69. <h2>Data Grouping in AngularJS DataTable</h2>
  70. <div ng-app="myApp" ng-controller="GroupingCtrl">
  71. <jqx-data-table jqx-settings="gridSettings"></jqx-data-table>
  72. </div>
Output


That's it. Please send your feedback and queries in comments box.