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DXperience v2008 vol 3: sorting by any column/row in the pivot grid (WinForms)

     

This one is for those hard-core types who live and breathe pivot grids (and I'm talking about the end-users here).

In version v2008 vol 3, you can specify the summary columns or rows that can be sorted. At run-time, the user merely has to right-click the column or row header to bring up a context menu and then select the required sorting option.

Since pictures are worth a thousand words, check this out. Here's a pivot grid showing orders generated by the sales people, ordered by month.

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I'd really like to see those sales people sorted by order amount for each month. So, I right click on the Order Amount column header:

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And select Sort Sales Person by This Column:

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That showed the data in ascending order (and note the small icon in the Order Amount column header that shows it's the "sorting data". To show it in descending order, I merely click the Sales Person column header:

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Published Oct 31 2008, 11:58 AM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)
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Technorati tags: v2008.3, XtraPivotGrid
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awake said:

is this only for the winforms version?

October 31, 2008 3:58 PM
 

Jim Clay said:

Now that's cool!  When I eventually get our in house app completed, I will be shifting over to do a bunch of pivot grid stuff for the owner...This will be a very nice feature!

THanks,

Jim

October 31, 2008 4:31 PM
 

Bruno Kmita said:

Really nice!!!

Possibly the best new features in this release...

Tks a lot guys!

November 4, 2008 9:33 AM

About Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

Julian is the Chief Technology Officer at Developer Express. You can reach him directly at julianb@devexpress.com. You can also follow him on Twitter with the ID JMBucknall.
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