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User Interaction When Grouping Records (xamDataGrid)
Topic Overview
Purpose
This topic describes user interactions when grouping xamDataGrid™ records.
Required background
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Purpose
This topic introduces the xamDataGrid control and various elements, on which control is composed.
In this topic
This topic contains the following sections:
User interactions when sorting and grouping records
Overview
The following table summarizes the capabilities of the xamDataGrid control’s main user interaction related to sorting grouped records.
The user can…
Using…
Details
Configurable?
Users can drag field headers from multiple field layouts into group-by area
Users can drag Label Presenters out of the group-by area to ungroup by field
Group by more than one field
Users can drag more than one field headers into group-by area
Group by field
Users can group on a field simply by clicking on a Label Presenter and dragging it into the group-by area. In the event you cannot see the group by area it will automatically appear.
This is how the xamDataGrid layout changes after grouping.
Remove grouping
Users can remove groupings by dragging the Label Presenter outside of the group-by area.
Group by more than one field
Users may group by more than one field by following these steps:
Create a group by dragging a Label Presenter into the Group by Area, see the Group by field section in this topic for additional information.
Expand the group by clicking on the group expander in order to expand one or more GroupByRecord and show their label presenters
Drag as many additional label presenter into the group-by area as desired
Related Content
Topics
The following topics provide additional information related to this topic.
Topic
Purpose
This topic gives an overview of grouping functionality of xamDataGrid . This feature allows your users to group data into more manageable and navigable way. The feature displays a section of the control in which your users can drag columns in order to group their data.
This topic describes how you can change the location of Group-by Area.
This topic describes how you can detach the group-by area from Data Presenter control and create an external group-by area in your window.
This topic describes how you can modify the layout of the field headers and field layout descriptions in the group-by area.
