Well, the display field is of type string because it is a formatted value (e.g. “$1,234.00”) so I couldn’t make this field type numeric. When you say that sorting is always by displayField, what if you didn’t specify a displayField (only a datafield)? Wouldn’t it sort by datafield in that case?
My basic question is, is there any way (using displayField vs. datafield or any other technique) to allow the grid to show values in the grid based on one field in my data source and then sort that same column based on another value in my data source?