Sort – DeanLogic

Date Sort in a DataGrid – the easy way

Posted on March 1, 2013 by DeanLogic — No Comments ↓

While trying to give suggestions to a post on the Flex Forum, I modified my Simple Data Grid to include a column for a Date. The poster had an issue with sorting the column with dates in it. My guess is, the Date value is actually a String object. It really isn’t very hard to create a Date from a string, just parse out the String and feed the appropriate date times into the Date object. Here is how I create the random date value. Since I insert the value into the item Object as a Date object, the sort Continue reading Date Sort in a DataGrid – the easy way→

ArrayCollection SortOn before a Sort

Posted on February 21, 2013 by DeanLogic — 2 Comments ↓

I have a display screen that shows a list of items waiting to be acknowledged by technicians. If the page isn’t acknowledged, then the page is escalated up to the next level. The display uses a DataGrid and when the number of items exceeds the displayable rows on the DataGrid, it uses pagination functions to create multiple pages for viewing the other items. When an ArrayCollection is sliced for each page, it causes an issue with sorting. When the data was sorted by level and datetime, it would only sort on the current slice of data, even if I sorted Continue reading ArrayCollection SortOn before a Sort→