Group without a sort?

[Deborah]

We have a set of report types with a defined display order. For example, we want the Customer Reports, then the Financial Reports, then the Accounting Reports. Is there a way to group without sorting on the grouped column? I tried passing a null in for the sort order, but that just sorted ascending.
Thanks!

[Nikolay]

Hello Deborah,

Please refer to the following forum thread which discusses the same topic:
http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/winforms/gridview/new-problem-about-group-descriptor.aspx 

Kind regards,
Nikolay
the Telerik team

[Deborah]

Thank you for your reply.

I ended up changing the code to group by the DisplayOrder field and then used the GroupSummaryEvaluate event to change from the DisplayOrder to the string text that I wanted to display. This will work as long as no one ever defines duplicate display order fields.

Thanks again.