Group by Columns

The records displayed in the grid can be grouped by one or more columns. For example, you can group the records by a "Country" field and by a "State" Field.

Grouping can be setup programatically and can also be initiated by the user.

The user can simply drag and drop the column header that he wants to group on to a "group drop area" on top of the grid to group by a particular column.

Once the grid is grouped, the records with matching values in the grouping column are combined together to form a group. Every such group is captioned by a group bar. Each group bar is prefixed with a plus/minus button to make the groups expandable and collapsible so as to view and hide the underlying records of that group.