Hi,
I'm using a columnchooser-control added to a form to implement a custom approach to choose the visible columns. Since the fields from the underlying datasource shouldn't be shown to the users, ColumnChooserCaption is set for each column to made the captions more readable to regular users. This works fine, but the sorting order of the columnchooser-control (set to ColumnDisplayOrder.Alphabetical) seems to apply to the underlying datasource-column names and not the ColumnChooserCaption, by that puzzling the sort order :-( .
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for any help or hint!
Greetings from germany
Volker
Hi Dave ('n Mike, too),
after first submitting it as a bug, I got the following answer:
"Hello Volker,
Thank you for submitting your query with Infragistics Developer Support
I would like to inform you that the functionality you are looking for is intrinsically not supported in this control.
After searching our database, I have found a similar feature request # FR03863 which is related to "Have the column chooser display columns in alphabetical order instead of visible position"."
I insisted on that topic and so other staff members joined in and they finally changed it all to a feature request. Last words I read were (09/02/25):
"Thank you for contacting me. The feature you are asking for does make sense and is a good one. I have escalated FR11084 to our product management team for you.
I will let you know their assessment of this when they have reviewed it."
That's my current info on that. I changed my ColumnChooserCaptions in between, so that I did "manually order by renaming" ;-) . Not a good solution at all, but saved my nerves and released me from struggling about 'what is a feature and what a bug'....
Wish you good luck and good times
Hi Dave,
Not sure why this was submitted as a feature request. It's certainly not a feature. If this is happening, it's a bug and needs to be fixed.
I don't know if this was submitted as a bug and if it was fixed. What I recommend is that you download and install the latest service release and see if that corrects the issue. If it does not, you should Submit an incident to Infragistics Developer Support so they can get this corrected.
Hi Mike,
I am still on NetAdvantage 2008 Vol1... i want to upgrade but wondering if this item is resolved in one of your newer packages?
item FR11084... i need the columns to sort correctly as well.
Thanks,Dave
in between it has been forwarded as a feature request (FR11084).
Thanks again
Hi Volker,
If your description here is accurate and the columns are being sorted by Key rather than by the visible text in the caption, then this is definiately a bug. It makes no sense to sort by criteria the user cannot see.
The only way I could see this being correct is if the sorting is taking place before the captions are set.
If you have a hard time convincing Developer Support of this, send them a link to this thread. :)