Yes, the "directions" column is the issue, but it is the height of the individual cells.  You see there are ten lines available for customer directions to a business unit in our cell-based app that runs on UNIX.  In our new Windows interface, we need to keep the ten lines as ten cells in a grid.  Stacking them in the manor shown delivers a view the customers are used to.  The issue at hand is this grid is for view only.  If a user want to edit the data we pop-up a model form for editing.  Since this is for view only, we want to try to present only the "directions" cells that have data and make the grid look cleaner and get more data visible for the screen area available.  I tried using hidden, but it just hides the cell in place.  I have worked at setting the empty cells to a height of 0 or 1, but cannot find the correct properties.  I hope this explains the issue better.

Bob

Hi again Bob,

It would be better if you could explain which cells are empty in your screenshot.

Meanwhile It occured to me that the following property might help you in this scenario:

        private void ultraGrid1_InitializeLayout(object sender, Infragistics.Win.UltraWinGrid.InitializeLayoutEventArgs e)
        {
            e.Layout.Override.RowSizing = Infragistics.Win.UltraWinGrid.RowSizing.AutoFree;
        }

Please let me know if this helps or if I misunderstood you, I will be very happy to assist you further.

Boris,

I had already tried the rowsizing and it did not help.  To answer your first question, it varies.  Sometimes only the first (top) directions cell will be filled, the remaining 9 are empty.  Sometimes lines 1, 2, 3, & 5.  It varies.  I am testing for cell empty in the row initialized event of the grid and the test works fine and drops into the code section for the line in question.  It's just getting something to actually reduce the height or whatever it takes to hide the empty cell and consolidate the space.

Bob

Hello Bob,

Could you please review the sample attached to this post and see if it meets your requirements. If this project does not reproduce your scenario, please make the needed corrections and send it back to me if it is possible for you.

Please feel free to let me know if I misunderstood you or if you have any other questions.

Boris,

Attached is my modified version of your sample.

Bob

Hello,

Thank you for your feedback. I am glad to hear that you have come up with a solution for your 'issue'.

Please feel free to let me know if a question about our toolset comes up on your mind.

Thanks for researching that.  We decided to change back to using the grouping style grid and the backend will send all of the rows of directions data as one text string.  We can then get the look we want by setting the text for that cell to wrap and then perform the AutoSize when each row is initialized.  That gets us close enough to what we wanted.  They when the user double-clicks on the row to edit the data, we will put each row into its own grid row for maintenance purposes.  Thanks again for helping and doing the leg-work for us.

Bob