Kuika's Horizontal Grid element allows you to organize and display content in a horizontal layout in your app. Users can easily switch content elements by swiping left or right. The Horizontal Grid element is an ideal solution, especially for product listings, photo galleries, or when different content needs to be displayed side by side. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Horizontal Grid element, how to structure your content, and how to customize visual arrangements.

The Horizontal Grid element supports web and mobile applications.

This training content consists of the following topics:

Adding a Horizontal Grid element,
Horizontal Grid element properties,
Authorization,
Visibility,
Editability,
Customize the interface design with Style Panel,
Actions.

Add Horizontal Grid Element

After logging in to the Kuika platform, open the project you will work on from the “Apps” screen.

In the “UI Design” (1) module, drag and drop the Horizontal Grid element (4) under the “Data” (3) category from the “Elements” (2) panel on the left side.

You cannot use Header, Footer, Gallery View, FlexGrid, Carousel, Horizontal Grid, Horizontal Grid, Pagination elements and the Data element Horizontal Grid as a Child element.

Row, Horizontal Stack, Vertical Stack, Label, Button, Text Input, Number Input, Icon, Panel, Tab, Label, Image, Icon, MD Viewer, Video Player, Progress Bar, Progress Circle, Badge, Location Search, Email, Text Area, Password, URL, AutoComplete, SelectBox, You can add Slider, Range Slider, Checkbox, Switch, Button, Content Menu, Date, Date Time, Year Picker, CountDown, Area Chart, Donut Chart, LineChart, Pie Chart, Bar Chart, Rate, Web View, Signature, Chat and Google maps elements as Child elements.

Horizontal Grid Element Properties

Located in the Properties panel:

No Data Found Message: You can edit the empty status message when there is no data in the data source linked to the Horizontal Grid element.
Datasource: This is the field where you select the source whose data will be shown in the Horizontal Grid.
Fade: You can give the Horizontal Grid slides a Fade transition effect.
Hover Font Color: When you use a Label etc. element in Horizontal content, you can change the font color of Label etc. elements by hovering over the slide related to Horizontal Grid.
Hover Bg Color: You can change the background color by hovering over the Horizontal Grid slide.
Slide To Scroll: You can determine how many slides will be scrolled in each scroll operation.
Slide To Show: You can determine how many slides will be shown in total.
Swipe: You can add scrolling with finger gestures on mobile applications or touch screens.
Vertical: Horizontal Grid slides come side by side horizontally by default. With Vertical, you can sort them vertically from top to bottom.
Pause On Dots Hover: You can hide the interaction that appears when the cursor is dragged over the dots under the slides.
Autoplay: You can give automatic transition feature to slides.
Autoplay Speed: You can set the speed of the slide autoplay feature.
Show No Data Found Image: Allows you to show a placeholder image instead when no data is found in the slide show.

Authorization.

You can customize user access with “Anonymous Access” and “All Roles Access” authorization options on the screens and elements of your application. While “Anonymous Access” enables access without any account information query, “All Roles Access” provides access by verifying user account information.

For element level authorization, you can manage the security and user experience of your application by selecting the relevant element and editing the “Authorization” settings from the Properties panel.

Visibility

It allows you to adjust the visibility of screens or elements. Visibility in Elements allows you to regulate visibility based on a specific state or condition. For each element, you can make it always visible, hidden, or visible and hidden depending on a condition.

Click on the element on the screen.
Open the “Properties” panel on the right side.
Click on the “Visibility” field and make one of the following selections according to the needs of your application. Kuika offers Always Visible, Hidden, Sometimes Visible options to control the visibility of the screens in your application.

Always Visible: Ensures that the screens in your app are always visible. ‍
Hidden: Allows hiding screens in your application. ‍
Sometimes Visible: Makes screens in your application conditionally visible.

Editability

Allows you to make elements editable.

Enabled: Selecting this option makes the element editable.
Disabled: In this case, the element cannot be edited.
Sometimes Enabled: This option means that the element is sometimes editable and sometimes not, depending on certain conditions.

Customize the İnterface Design with Style Panel

By customizing your elements with the Styling Panel, you can create unique and impressive user interfaces in your web and mobile applications.

The sections defined below vary depending on the element.

Layout‍: Here you can make visual adjustments such as sizing, alignment and padding of elements. These settings also affect the layout of other elements within the element. Properties include Size, Min Size and Align; however, some elements may not support the Display property.
Text: The element's text properties can be edited here through font family, style, color, size, spacing and other options. This section supports all Text related adjustments.
Fill: You can use the Fill setting to customize the element's background with color or images.
Border: You can give your elements a more aesthetic look by adding borders and adjusting the corner radii.
Shadow: You can add a shadow effect to elements used in web applications to give a sense of depth. However, the shadow feature may not be supported as some elements are not suitable for mobile applications.

Actions.

Kuika contains system actions such as Arithmetic, Authorization, Condition, Device, Export, Geolocation, Invers, Local Storage, Multi Language, Navigation, Notification, Payment, UI Control, Process Administration, Process Automation, Trigger, Process Automation, Process Administration and String Operations.

In addition to system actions, you can also use SQL actions that you create yourself.

To add actions to elements, you can use the “+ADD ACTION” button from the Properties panel on the right side.