This sample is for sorting the rows in a grid datawindow ascending or descending based on the user clicking the column header. It only allows for a single column sort at a time.<\/p>\n
\/\/Clicked event of datawindow\n\/\/ You need an instance variable (string is_sort_column)\n\/\/ This script first checks to see if we've clicked in the header area or\n\/\/ the detail area. If we've clicked in the header area, it tries to sort\n\/\/ the datawindow on the column header we've clicked on. \n\nInteger ll_tab_pos\nString ls_object_at_pointer\nString ls_object_type\nString ls_sort_format, ls_sort_data,ls_sort_fld_type\nString ls_editstyle\nString ls_band_at_pointer\n\nIF row > 0 THEN\n \/\/ do something else\nELSE\n \/\/ If we've clicked in the header band, get the name of the object we've\n \/\/ clicked on and sort on its related column. This functionality is\n \/\/ dependent on the text object name (the column label) having the same \n \/\/ name as the column name with an additional "_t". \n \/\/ For example, the label for the "empid" column would be "empid_t".\n\n ls_band_at_pointer = This.GetBandAtPointer()\n ll_tab_pos = Pos(ls_band_at_pointer, "\t", 1)\n ls_band_at_pointer = Trim(Left(ls_band_at_pointer, ll_tab_pos - 1))\n IF ls_band_at_pointer = "header" THEN\n\tls_object_at_pointer = This.GetObjectAtPointer()\n\tIF ls_object_at_pointer <> "" THEN\n ll_tab_pos = Pos(ls_object_at_pointer, "\t", 1)\n ls_object_at_pointer = Trim(Left(ls_object_at_pointer, ll_tab_pos - 1))\n ls_object_type = This.Describe(ls_object_at_pointer + ".Type")\n IF ls_object_type = "text" THEN\n \/\/ if second time to click this column, sort descending\n IF is_sort_column = ls_object_at_pointer THEN\n is_sort_column = ""\n ls_sort_data = Left(ls_object_at_pointer, Len(ls_object_at_pointer) - 2)\n ls_sort_fld_type = This.Describe(ls_sort_data+ ".Coltype")\n CHOOSE CASE lower(ls_sort_fld_type)\n CASE 'date','datetime'\n ls_sort_format = ls_sort_data + " D"\n CASE ELSE\n ls_editstyle = this.Describe(ls_sort_data + ".Edit.Style")\n CHOOSE CASE lower(ls_editstyle)\n CASE 'edit', '!', 'editmask', 'checkbox'\n ls_sort_format = ls_sort_data + " D"\n CASE ELSE\n ls_sort_format = "LookUpDisplay(" + ls_sort_data + ")" + " D"\n END CHOOSE\n END CHOOSE\n ELSE\n is_sort_column = ls_object_at_pointer\n ls_sort_data = Left(ls_object_at_pointer, Len(ls_object_at_pointer) - 2)\n ls_sort_fld_type = This.Describe(ls_sort_data+ ".Coltype")\n CHOOSE CASE lower(ls_sort_fld_type)\n CASE 'date','datetime'\n ls_sort_format = ls_sort_data + " A"\n CASE ELSE\n ls_editstyle = this.Describe(ls_sort_data + ".Edit.Style")\n CHOOSE CASE lower(ls_editstyle)\n CASE 'edit', '!', 'editmask', 'checkbox'\n ls_sort_format = ls_sort_data + " A"\n CASE ELSE\n ls_sort_format = "LookUpDisplay(" + ls_sort_data + ")" + " A"\n END CHOOSE\n END CHOOSE\n END IF\n IF This.SetSort(ls_sort_format) = 1 THEN\n SetPointer(HourGlass!)\n This.Sort()\n END IF\n END IF\n\tEND IF \/\/ IF ls_object_at_pointer <> "" THEN\n END IF \/\/ IF ls_band_at_pointer = "header" THEN\nEND IF<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This sample is for sorting the rows in a grid datawindow ascending or descending based on the user clicking the column header. It only allows for a single column sort at a time. \/\/Clicked event of datawindow \/\/ You need an instance variable (string is_sort_column) \/\/ This script first checks to see if we've clicked…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,10],"tags":[21,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}