Multicell columns?

[Atith Pagdi]

How do I increase the width of a column to span over more than one cell in the GDBG control?

[Administrator]

I do not understand your request.

Do you want the column header of a column to display over 2 columns under it with the data under it refelcting 2 columns from your datasource?

Or do you want every row to have a cell that spans 2 columns? If so, what happens to the values in the hidden column? Do you want them just not displayed? and do you want to insert an unbound column so all the original information in the data source is still visible?

Or do you want something else?

[Atith Pagdi]

Clay,

I''ve brought one of the columns into a new row (multi row record) and this is the only column in the complete row. I want this column to span the entire length of the grid.

A | B | c
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D
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A | B | C
Data | Data | Data
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D data all throudh - spanning
the entire length.
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Also, how do I make the text in the cell wrap?

Thanks,
Atith

[Administrator]

Try adding "-" as placeholders. This should make the column span additional cells.

this.gridDataBoundGrid1.Binder.LayoutColumns("Col1", "Col2", "Col0", ".", "Col3", "-", "-");

[Administrator]

What about making the cell text wrap around?

[Administrator]

For that column, set

//if you added GridBoundCoulumns
grid.GridBoundColumns["D"].StyleInfo.WrapText = true;

//if you have not added GridBoundCoulumns
grid.Binder.InternalColumns["D"].StyleInfo.WrapText = true;
            

[Atith Pagdi]

Clay,

I was able to make the header columns invisible, but when I click the area where the invisible header cell is, the sort still happens based on that column. How do we disable sorting for particular columns?

Thanks!

[Administrator]

You can handle either the CellClick event or CellDoubleClick event and set e.Cancel = true if e.RowIndex and e.ColIndex point to your cell.