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How to: Prevent End-Users From Changing Filter Conditions

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The following example shows how to prevent end-users from changing the filter condition.In this example, the FieldFilterChanging event is handled to prevent an end-user from hiding the 'Beverages' field value. If an end-user tries to hide the 'Beverages' field value, the event handler sets the event parameter's Cancel property to true to cancel changing the filter condition.

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<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.cs"
    Inherits="ASPxPivotGrid_CancelFilterChange._Default" %>
<%@ Register Assembly="DevExpress.Web.ASPxPivotGrid.v10.2, Version=10.2.4.0,
    Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b88d1754d700e49a"
    Namespace="DevExpress.Web.ASPxPivotGrid"
    TagPrefix="dx" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
    <title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
        <dx:ASPxPivotGrid ID="ASPxPivotGrid1" runat="server" DataSourceID="AccessDataSource1"
        OnFieldFilterChanging="ASPxPivotGrid1_FieldFilterChanging">
            <Fields>
                <dx:PivotGridField ID="fieldProductName" Area="RowArea" AreaIndex="1"
                Caption="Product Name" FieldName="ProductName">
                </dx:PivotGridField>
                <dx:PivotGridField ID="fieldShippedYear" Area="ColumnArea" AreaIndex="0" Caption="Year"
                    FieldName="ShippedDate" GroupInterval="DateYear" InnerGroupIndex="0">
                </dx:PivotGridField>
                <dx:PivotGridField ID="fieldProductSales" Area="DataArea" AreaIndex="0" Caption="Sales"
                    FieldName="ProductSales">
                </dx:PivotGridField>
                <dx:PivotGridField ID="fieldCategoryName" Area="RowArea" AreaIndex="0"
                Caption="Category Name" FieldName="CategoryName">
                </dx:PivotGridField>
            </Fields>
        </dx:ASPxPivotGrid>
        <asp:AccessDataSource ID="AccessDataSource1" runat="server" DataFile="~/nwind.mdb"
            SelectCommand="SELECT [CategoryName], [ProductName], [ProductSales],
            [ShippedDate] FROM [ProductReports]">
        </asp:AccessDataSource>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>