GridColumn Properties

Represents an individual column in Grid Views and Card Views.

Name	Description
AbsoluteIndex	Gets or sets the column’s position within the View’s column collection.
AccessibleDescription	Gets or sets the object’s description used by accessibility client applications.
AccessibleName	Gets or sets the object’s name used by accessibility client applications.
AccessibleRole	Gets or sets the object’s accessible role.
AllowSummaryMenu	Gets or sets whether all supported summaries or only the Count summary are enabled in the column’s footer context menu.
AppearanceCell	Gets the appearance settings used to paint the column’s data cells.
AppearanceHeader	Gets the appearance settings used to paint the column header.
CanRaiseEvents protected	Gets a value indicating whether the component can raise an event. Inherited from Component.
CanShowInAdvancedCustomizationForm	Gets whether the column can be shown in the advanced customization form.
CanShowInCustomizationForm	Gets a value indicating whether the column’s header can be displayed within the Customization Form.
Caption	Gets or sets the column’s display caption.
ColumnAnnotationAttributes	Returns the object that contains current values for all existing Data Annotation Attributes.
ColumnEdit	Gets or sets the in-place editor for all data cells that belong to this column.
ColumnEditName	Gets or sets the name of the column’s editor.
ColumnHandle	Gets or sets the column’s bound data field by its index within the associated data source.
ColumnType	Gets the column’s data type.
Container	Gets the IContainer that contains the Component. Inherited from Component.
CustomizationCaption	Gets or sets the column’s caption when its header is displayed within the Customization Form.
CustomizationSearchCaption	This member supports the internal infrastructure, and is not intended to be used directly from your code.
DesignMode protected	Gets a value that indicates whether the Component is currently in design mode. Inherited from Component.
DisplayFormat	Provides access to the object specifying the formatting applied to column values.
Events protected	Gets the list of event handlers that are attached to this Component. Inherited from Component.
FieldName	To bind a column to a data source field, set this property to the required data field name. To create unbound columns, assign a unique identifier to this property. If you obtained a column as a method return value or as an event argument, read the FieldName property value to identify this column.
FieldNameSortGroup	Gets or sets another field by which data is sorted/grouped/filtered when sorting/grouping/filtering is applied to the current column. The FieldNameSortGroup property is intended to be used in Server data binding modes to sort columns (e.g., lookup columns) against text instead of edit values.
FilterInfo	Gets or sets the filter condition applied to the column.
FilterMode	Gets or sets how column values are filtered in the auto filter row and in filter dropdown.
Fixed	Gets or sets a value specifying whether the column takes part in horizontal View scrolling or is anchored to a View edge.
GroupFormat	Provides access to the formatting settings for the column’s values which are displayed within group rows.
GroupIndex	Gets or sets the if the grid data are grouped by the given column, and what the group level is.
GroupInterval	Gets or sets how data rows are grouped by a specific column. The following help section describes the limitations of server mode: Server Mode Limitations and Specifics.
Image	Use settings of the GridColumn.ImageOptions property to get or set a column header image.
ImageAlignment	Use the Alignment setting of the GridColumn.ImageOptions property to get or set column header image alignment.
ImageIndex	Use the ImageIndex setting of the GridColumn.ImageOptions property to assign a column header image by its index in an image collection.
ImageOptions	Provides access to settings that allow you to set up raster and vector icons for this GridColumn.
Images	Gets an image collection whose images can be displayed within the column’s header.
IsLoading	Indicates whether the View that owns the current column is currently being initialized.
IsUnboundExpressionValid	Gets whether the column’s GridColumn.UnboundExpression specifies a valid expression.
MaxWidth	Gets or sets the column’s maximum width.
MinWidth	Gets or sets the column’s minimum allowed width.
MRUFilters	Provides access to the column’s recently used filters.
Name	Gets or sets the column name.
OptionsColumn	Provides access to the column’s options.
OptionsEditForm	Provides access to the settings of the editor that corresponds to the current column within an Edit Form.
OptionsFilter	Provides access to the filter options for the current column.
ReadOnly	Returns the OptionsColumn.ReadOnly property value.
RealColumnEdit	Gets the repository item that actually represents the column’s editor.
SearchText	Gets or sets the text of the column’s built-in header search box. This property is supported in Grid Views and Banded Grid Views.
ShowButtonMode	Gets or sets a value that specifies which column cells display editor buttons.
ShowUnboundExpressionMenu	Gets or sets whether an end-user can open an Expression Editor for the current unbound column, using a context menu.
Site	Gets or sets the ISite of the Component. Inherited from Component.
SortIndex	Gets or sets the column’s position among sorted columns.
SortMode	Gets or sets how the column’s data are sorted/grouped.
SortOrder	Gets or sets the column’s sort order.
Summary	Allows you to add multiple total summaries for a column. These summaries are displayed within the View Footer.
SummaryItem	Provides access to the column’s footer summary settings.
SummaryText	Gets the summary text displayed within the View footer cell located under this column.
Tag	Gets or sets the data associated with the column.
ToolTip	Gets or sets a column hint.
UnboundDataType	Allows you to make the column unbound, and specify the type of data it stores.
UnboundDataTypeName	For internal use.
UnboundExpression	Gets or sets an expression that the unbound column uses to calculate its cell values. Columns with unbound expressions are non-editable.
UnboundType	Specifies whether this column is unbound, and if so, the type of data it stores.
View	Gets the View that owns the column.
Visible	Gets or sets whether the grid column is visible.
VisibleIndex	Gets or sets the column’s position within the View’s column header panel.
VisibleWidth	Gets the actual column width. This property is useful in column auto-width mode (see GridOptionsView.ColumnAutoWidth).
Width	Gets or sets the column width.