Thank you Taz. 

I will reach out to you with background on what we were doing with UltraWebGrid and where we are struggling to make the switch to the new grids, specifically the hierarchical grid since we must support Group By.  

In a nutshell, we have a single "view.ascx" that wrapped the capabilities of the UltraWebGrid so that both admins and users would have access to the wealth of features.  We serve this view.ascx up everywhere we need to present a grid so that we have common services around our result presentation.

A right-click popup menu, for admins,  allows them to setup the grid so users would have the most logical presentation for the pariticular query being served up.  So, an admin might choose to turn on group by, filtering, rearrange column ordering, establish a particular multi-col sort, and so forth.  This was all done live with the resultset present in the view.ascx.  They would save those changes and we would dump out an XML file that, when a user launched the particular query we would apply the various features that the admin had selected.

We find that the features we supported in a single grid is now scattered between the two WebData grids and that, given GroupBy is frequently engaged, we must go with the hierarchical grid.   Right out of the gate, that grid appears to be architected to support master-detail relationships and so, to serve up a single table, we have to kludge a bit.   From there, we are finding that the behavior of the hierarchical grid has been a bit buggy.

I will reach out directly with more specifics in the near future. 

Thanks,

Randy

Hello, 

Sorry to hear that you are having trouble getting the controls to work as needed within your application. For outlook groupby, hierarchical grid would be the right control, as it provides the necessary structure to display grid in a hierarchical manner. 

If it is still not too late, I would like to speak with you and understand more about your scenarios. I can be reached at murtazaa@infragistics.com

Best, 

Taz. 

That is unfortunate.  It is the main reason we are probably going to have to say goodbye to Infragistics. 

Our users construct queries and the results get poured into the grid where they may need to group, filter, multi-col sort,  etc.  We allow the user to turn these feature off and on from a popup menu.

So, we do not know in advance what our users may want to do.   Therefore, according to you we would have to use WebHierarchicalDataGrid as our grid surface, in case they want to group.  We have found that binding a single table to that grid to be a kludge at best and that the grid itself to be short of the feature set we used to engage in the old UltraWebGrid.

So long old friend.