how to set sortdatafield

[JetParticipant]

I am working on a grid needing to sort and display tooltips for some specified columns.
I find that sortdatafield is the value of displayfiled,it makes me sick because the display column name should be diffrient from sort column name to transfer to server side.
I thought the sortdatafield could be the value of datafield,but the current jqxgrid doesn’t work as my wish.

I think it is a defect or the jqxgrid needs to improve.

Any solution can resolve me from this difficulty?

[Peter StoevKeymaster]

Hi Jet,

No, this is not a defect in the Grid. You can sort the data which you see in the Grid. You can’t sort by something which is not visible and we think that is how it should work. If you think that it should work in a different way, then you can implement your own sorting function – we demonstrated that in the Grid’s Sorting Demos.

Best Regards,
Peter Stoev

jQWidgets Team
http://www.jqwidgets.com

[JetParticipant]

hi Peter,

The custom function of deom demostrate sort in client side.I want to sort in server side,so I need to change the search condition of sortdatafield after clicking the head of column and before sending a request to the server.

[Peter StoevKeymaster]

Hi Jet,

The dataAdapter has function called formatData which allows you to modify the default Grid state variables or add custom variables to your server requests.

Best Regards,
Peter Stoev

jQWidgets Team
http://www.jqwidgets.com

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