CustomBinding SortExpression - SortingName different to Model property name

[Fandi]

Hi,

I am using AJAX Custom Binding on Razor. The GridModel data contains collection of AccountModel.

One of property in AccountModel is called "GroupName", so when I am sorting by this column the GridCommand sorting descriptor member will contain "GroupName".

Is there a way to have sorting name to be different than the property name? Say I want it so the sorting name to be "AccountName" rather than "GroupName".

In my view there should be attribute in the Model which we can utilise to specify the sorting name, ie "Sorting attribute".

This is very simple example, but is important for me - and yes I could do If statement when ajax call my search function on controller and check the property name before changing it to sorting name manually - but that is so not clean, and there has to be better option.

Public Class AccountModel

    <Sorting(Name:="AccountName")> _
    <Display(Name:="Group Name")> _
    Public Property GroupName As String

End Class

Thanks
Fandi

[Atanas Korchev]

Hi Fandi,

 This is not supported. The grid will always sort using the bound field.

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team

[Luis]

Finally I got it!

With the help of the guys on this thread I'm proud to say that I came to a satisfactory result, pluggable in any type of MVC application without much difficulty and almost none in the settings.

I published the project on Bitbucket and Nuget, please take a look and send me some feedbacks.

https://bitbucket.org/Lunadie/telerikmvcgridcustombindinghelper/wiki/Home 

https://nuget.org/packages/TelerikMvcGridCustomBindingHelper