>>>I am creating an application utilizing a connection string to a SQL Database. How can I manipulate the order of the fields from the SQL table into a Grid? Everything I try, I get the exact order of the fields from the SQL table in the grid.
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>>>I have even tried hardcoding the format I want after the I perform the cursorfill() command.
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>>>thisform._grid1.column1.hEADER1.Caption="Report #"
>>>thisform._grid1.column1.text1.ControlSource="OCA"
>>>thisform._grid1.column1.AutoFit
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>>>Thanks much in advance
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>>You need to set each column's controlsource to the correct AliasName.FieldName. You can do it in design time (and adjust all headers) or in run-time (form's Init).
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>Thank you. I got everything to work but the header adjustment. I am using:
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>thisform._grid1.column1.autofit
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>Any recommendations to make the grid column grow to actual size of the returned data?

I think you can run Grid.AutoFit() in form's Init.