Then you need to create the ActiveRecord that will be representing this view:
```php
namespace app\models\views\grid;
use yii\db\ActiveRecord;
class UserView extends ActiveRecord
{
/**
* @inheritdoc
*/
public static function tableName()
{
return 'vw_user_info';
}
public static function primaryKey()
{
return ['id'];
}
/**
* @inheritdoc
*/
public function rules()
{
return [
// define here your rules
];
}
/**
* @inheritdoc
*/
public static function attributeLabels()
{
return [
// define here your attribute labels
];
}
}
```
After that you can use this UserView active record with search models, without additional specification of sorting and filtering attributes.
All attributes will be working out of the box. Note that this approach has several pros and cons:
- you don't need to specify different sorting and filtering conditions. Everything works out of the box;
- it can be much faster because of the data size, count of sql queries performed (for each relation you will need an additional query);
- since this is just a simple mapping UI on the sql view it lacks some domain logic that is in your entities, so if you have some methods like `isActive`,
`isDeleted` or others that will influence the UI, you will need to duplicate them in this class too.
### Multiple GridViews on one page
You can use more than one GridView on a single page but some additional configuration is needed so that
they do not interfere with each other.
When using multiple instances of GridView you have to configure different parameter names for
the generated sort and pagination links so that each GridView has its own individual sorting and pagination.
You do so by setting the [[yii\data\Sort::sortParam|sortParam]] and [[yii\data\Pagination::pageParam|pageParam]]
of the dataProvider's [[yii\data\BaseDataProvider::$sort|sort]] and [[yii\data\BaseDataProvider::$pagination|pagination]]
instances.
Assume we want to list the `Post` and `User` models for which we have already prepared two data providers
