How to: Sort Data by Individual Columns (Rows)

• Aug 01, 2019
• 2 minutes to read

The following example demonstrates how to sort data by a particular column.

In this example, values of the Product Name field are sorted by September 1994 column summary values. To do this, two sort conditions represented by SortByCondition instances are created. One of them identifies the ‘1994’ field value, while another identifies the ‘September’ value. These sort conditions are added to the Product Name field’s PivotGridField.SortByConditions collection to specify the column by which Product Name values should be sorted. A data field that identifies the column is specified via the PivotGridField.SortByField property.

MainWindow.xaml.cs

using System.Windows;
using DevExpress.Xpf.PivotGrid;

namespace DXPivotGrid_SortBySummary {
    public partial class MainWindow : Window {
        public MainWindow() {
            InitializeComponent();
            pivotGridControl1.DataSource = 
                (new nwindDataSetTableAdapters.SalesPersonTableAdapter()).GetData();
        }
        private void pivotGridControl1_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) {

            // Locks the pivot grid from updating while the Sort by Summary
            // settings are being customized.
            pivotGridControl1.BeginUpdate();
            try {

                // Specifies a data field whose summary values should be used to sort values
                // of the Product Name field.
                fieldProductName.SortByField = fieldUnitPrice;

                // Specifies a column by which the Product Name field values should be sorted.
                fieldProductName.SortByConditions.Add(new SortByCondition(fieldYear, "1994"));
                fieldProductName.SortByConditions.Add(new SortByCondition(fieldMonth, "9"));
            }
            finally {

                // Unlocks the pivot grid and applies changes.
                pivotGridControl1.EndUpdate();
            }
        }
    }
}

MainWindow.xaml

<Window xmlns:dxpg="http://schemas.devexpress.com/winfx/2008/xaml/pivotgrid"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        x:Class="DXPivotGrid_SortBySummary.MainWindow"
        Height="600" Width="800" Title="Main Window">
    <Grid>
        <dxpg:PivotGridControl Name="pivotGridControl1" Loaded="pivotGridControl1_Loaded">
            <dxpg:PivotGridControl.Fields>
                <dxpg:PivotGridField Name="fieldUnitPrice" FieldName="UnitPrice" Area="DataArea"/>
                <dxpg:PivotGridField Name="fieldYear" FieldName="OrderDate" Area="ColumnArea"
                                     Caption="Year" GroupInterval="DateYear"/>
                <dxpg:PivotGridField Name="fieldMonth" FieldName="OrderDate" Area="ColumnArea"
                                     Caption="Month" GroupInterval="DateMonth"/>
                <dxpg:PivotGridField Name="fieldCategoryName" FieldName="CategoryName"
                                     Area="RowArea" Caption="Category"/>
                <dxpg:PivotGridField Name="fieldProductName" FieldName="ProductName"
                                     Area="RowArea" Caption="Product"/>
                <dxpg:PivotGridField Name="fieldQuantity" FieldName="Quantity" Area="DataArea"/>
            </dxpg:PivotGridControl.Fields>
        </dxpg:PivotGridControl>
    </Grid>
</Window>

MainWindow.xaml.vb

Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
Imports System.Windows
Imports DevExpress.Xpf.PivotGrid

Namespace DXPivotGrid_SortBySummary
    Partial Public Class MainWindow
        Inherits Window
        Public Sub New()
            InitializeComponent()
            pivotGridControl1.DataSource = _
                (New nwindDataSetTableAdapters.SalesPersonTableAdapter()).GetData()
        End Sub
        Private Sub pivotGridControl1_Loaded(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As RoutedEventArgs)

            ' Locks the pivot grid from updating while the Sort by Summary
            ' settings are being customized.
            pivotGridControl1.BeginUpdate()
            Try

                ' Specifies a data field whose summary values should be used to sort values
                ' of the Product Name field.
                fieldProductName.SortByField = fieldUnitPrice

                ' Specifies a column by which the Product Name field values should be sorted.
                fieldProductName.SortByConditions.Add(New SortByCondition(fieldYear, "1994"))
                fieldProductName.SortByConditions.Add(New SortByCondition(fieldMonth, "9"))
            Finally

                ' Unlocks the pivot grid and applies changes.
                pivotGridControl1.EndUpdate()
            End Try
        End Sub
    End Class
End Namespace