--- In [email protected], Adrian Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All, > > I discovered a frustrating feature of the ADG when using > groupings...the ADG automatically sorts the displayed data by the field > you are grouping on. I really, really need the ability to disable this > as I am incorporating a displayOrder option for my users to define what > order they want the groupings to appear in. The data is coming from my > webservice based on the displayOrder but once it gets populated in my > ADG, it's re-ordered by the grouping. > > So for example, I have 10 groups....named Group 1 through Group 10. > And each of the groups displayOrder is set to the same as the name...so > the displayOrder for Group 1 == 1, Group 2 == 2, ... , Group 10 == 10. > But when the ADG is rendered, it sorts them by the group names, which > are strings, and puts them out of the expected order...I get Group 1, > Group 10, Group 2, etc. > > This is a critical aspect for us and I really hope to find a > solution to this.
I am not sure, but I think Grouping and GroupingField have a groupingObjectFunction, and it may be that you can separate what gets shown on the screen from whatever is causing the reordering. Possibly you could also apply a sort to the GroupingCollection. That being said, I am using a groupingFunction to group a bunch of dates by month, and, at least internally in the GroupingCollection, it stays in the same order as the dates are in the flat ArrayCollection. These are not being displayed in an ADG, since I'm looking more at how a GroupingCollection can be used to allow for better data management in general, not just with ADG. So it may be that the ADG itself is imposing the ordering. HTH; Amy
