How to: Sort Data by a Data Field
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This example demonstrates how to sort values of the ‘Product Name’ column field by summary values calculated against the ‘Quantity’ data field. To do this, assign the ‘Quantity’ field name the ‘ProductName’ field’s FieldName property. As a result, the values is arranged in the order specified by summary values.
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.cs"
Inherits="SortBySummary._Default" %>
<%@ Register Assembly="DevExpress.Web.ASPxPivotGrid.v9.3, Version=9.3.1.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b88d1754d700e49a"
Namespace="DevExpress.Web.ASPxPivotGrid"
TagPrefix="dx" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<dx:ASPxPivotGrid ID="ASPxPivotGrid1" runat="server"
DataSourceID="AccessDataSource1">
<Fields>
<dx:PivotGridField ID="fieldProductName" Area="RowArea" AreaIndex="1"
FieldName="ProductName" SortBySummaryInfo-FieldName="Quantity">
</dx:PivotGridField>
<dx:PivotGridField ID="fieldSalesperson" Area="RowArea" AreaIndex="0"
FieldName="Salesperson">
</dx:PivotGridField>
<dx:PivotGridField ID="fieldQuantity" Area="DataArea" AreaIndex="0"
FieldName="Quantity">
</dx:PivotGridField>
</Fields>
</dx:ASPxPivotGrid>
<asp:AccessDataSource ID="AccessDataSource1" runat="server"
DataFile="~/App_Data/nwind.mdb"
SelectCommand="SELECT [ProductName], [Salesperson], [Quantity] FROM [Invoices]">
</asp:AccessDataSource>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>