Need Custom Sorting on Groups in RadGridView

[Arpit]

Hi,

I have a RadGridView grouped on a property of the binding object.

GroupDescriptor phaseDescriptor = new GroupDescriptor();
phaseDescriptor.Member = "PhaseName";
this.grdScope.GroupDescriptors.Insert(0, phaseDescriptor);

The collection of object bound to grid is "Task" with a property "PhaseName"

The Task object contains another property of type  "Phase" whose Name property is same as Task's PhaseName property.

The type Phase defines another property "Index". I want to sort the Groups according to this index. Right now I can only sort the groups ascending or descending based on PhaseName only.

Any ideas?

[Yavor Georgiev]

Hi Arpit,

 There is a way you can achieve this using the generic GroupDescriptor which allows you to manually specify the grouping expression passed to the LINQ runtime. Here is what you need to do:

var descriptor = new GroupDescriptor<Task, Phase, int>();
descriptor.GroupingExpression = task => task.Phase;
descriptor.GroupSortingExpression = grouping => grouping.Key.Index;
descriptor.DisplayContent = "PhaseName";

 This creates a new GroupDescriptor that will be applied on a collection of Task objects, will group by the value of an expression returning a Phase type and will sort the groups by the value of an expression returning an integer (assuming that the Index property of the Phase type is of type int).

 Setting the DisplayContent property will determine the contents of the group descriptor item in RadGridView's group panel.

 Also, you might need to override the Phase type's ToString method and return the value of the Name property, because that will be displayed in the group row for each group in RadGridView.

 There's one small caveat - since you'll be grouping on a custom type, not string, your custom type needs to implement IEquatable<T>, since this will be used by LINQ to determine the number and composition of groups.

Kind regards,
Yavor Georgiev
the Telerik team

[Arpit]

Thanks Yavor, I will try your idea.
-Arpit

[Arpit]

Did exactly as you mentioned in the solution:

var serviceGroup = new Telerik.Windows.Data.GroupDescriptor<Task, Service, int>();
serviceGroup.GroupingExpression = task => task.ParentObject.ParentObject;
serviceGroup.GroupSortingExpression = group => group.Key.Index;
serviceGroup.SortDirection = System.ComponentModel.ListSortDirection.Ascending;
serviceGroup.DisplayContent = "ServiceName";
this.grdScope.GroupDescriptors.Insert(0, serviceGroup);

 
Type Service inherits IEquatable<Service>. But it also did not help. The groups in the gridview are still ordered in the sequence in which they were added to ItemSource.

[Yavor Georgiev]

Hello Arpit,

 We discovered an issue a while back relating to how sorting is performed when the GroupSortingExpression is not the key of the IGrouping itself. Would it be possible to test your project against the Latest Internal Build assemblies?

Kind regards,
Yavor Georgiev
the Telerik team

[Karan]

Hello, 

       I have a same case but i have a dictionary bound to the telerik grid. 
       I have a dictionary of "MyObject" which has two properties Category and CategoryOrder.
       I want to group the grid by Category and then sort items within a group by CategoryOrder.

var serviceGroup = new Telerik.Windows.Data.GroupDescriptor<KeyValuePair<int,MyObject>,string, int>();

serviceGroup.GroupingExpression = object => object.Category;

serviceGroup.GroupSortingExpression = group => object.CategoryOrder;

The grid never loads for me using above code... Any help would be greatful.. 
A custom descriptor would be nice too... if possible.