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Multi column sorting in grid
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23/10/2011 11:15:02
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Forms & Form designer
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01526657
Message ID:
01527131
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53
>>Check your in box.
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>Thanks Marcia (and Tore).
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>It seems that I haven't really explained myself properly as this isn't what I'm looking for. I don't want the user to sort things in the grid by dragging the rows (although that may come in handy elsewhere). I want the user to be able to sort the entire contents of the grid by specifying which columns to sort on.
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>So If I have a grid showing the following columns:
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>Company, Department, Surname
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>I want the user to be able to sort the grid by:
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>Company + Department + Surname
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>or by:
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>Department + Surname
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>or by
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>Surname
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>or by
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>Surname + Company + Department
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>or any other possible combination.
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>I was envisaging this as letting the user to (to get the Company + Department + Surname order) click on the Company column header, which will then sort the grid by Company, then they can Ctrl+Click on the Department header which will set the order of the grid's recordsource to Company + Department and then they can Ctril+Click on the Surname column header and the full sort order will get set to Company + Department + Surname.

I think it's rather easy to program - you could have already be done.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.


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