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Today we will look at the latest addition to the ShieldUI jquery plugins list - the Masked textbox component. This versatile input widget allows customized character entry, specified by a predefined mask:

Main Features

The control allows easy implementation of dashboard and data-entry forms, which require more than standard input controls. Some of the main highlights for the widget are outlined below.

This blog entry focuses on the ShieldUI jQuery Grid component. The control offers table-layout rendering of data, as well a many advance features, such as sorting, custom layout and templates. The sample below demonstrates a first look at the component:

Some of the features of the component include:

In this blog entry, we take a look at the ShieldUI jQuery Autocomplete widget. We will review some of its most important features and supply some examples of usage.

At first glance, the widget looks like this:

In the next paragraphs, we will look at some of the most important properties of the widget.

Incorporating the ShieldUI jQuery Datepicker widget in bootstrap is easy, thanks to its intuitive styling mechanism. We will briefly look at some of the features of the control and see how to include it in the page and integrate it with bootstrap.
The standard date picker control allows navigation and easy selection of dates from a popup, attached on an input control. This comes handy in reservation scenarios, where quick navigation is a must.

This article describes how to use ShieldUI's NumericTextBox jQuery widget for limiting the user input in a field to a number. With no previous experience required, one can easily replace an existing HTML input control with the NumericTextBox and implement the input constraints in no time. Having to do that manually is a tedious task that requires a great deal of JavaScript programming, so it is always a good idea to look for handy widgets like this one and use its functionality out of the box.

Today we will look at the ShieldUI jQuery Datepicker widget, which allows easy selection of dates over a standard input field. It incorporates the ShieldUI Calendar to allow easy navigation over standard dates, or more reduced views of months or years. There are three widgets in this group, namely - the standard datepicker control, as well as month/year picker and datetime picker widgets.

The latest release of ShieldUI widgets included the Calendar control. This was a component, requested by many of our customers, and it was not long before our data visualization team started working on it. We set out to build the component with three main goals in mind - performance, flexibility and consistent API. Below you can find an outline of the main characteristics of the component, and see how it meets the requirements of your project.

In this article, we tackle a common data visualization task – creating a sales dashboard. A sales dashboard is widely used in business presentations, to outline key performance indicators for a given business process or objective. Key to any such presentation is the good visualization of the data, as well as a polished appearance. Naturally, each sales dashboard application is different and may vary greatly. The approach demonstrated in this article employs some of the most widely used components in such scenarios.

Native HTML elements used in web pages do not always provide the experience intended by developers and needed by the end-users. This article describes how Shield UI JavaScript widgets can be used to solve common and not-so-common UI problems of the modern web development world.

The increasing numbers of products and changes in reporting frequency are just some of the challenges one faces when preparing financial reports. Most large investment banks suffer from over reliance on end-user developed spreadsheets. Controlling the growth of this spreadsheet jungle is a challenge from a data security, disaster recovery and operational risk point of view. If Finance requirements are being met thorough these local solutions rather than requests for online systems, then IT role as an enabler for financial reporting is questionable.