Thanks for the reply Alvin,
Yes a listbox would be a far more clever solution but the existing page
uses the gridview's edit functionality so I can't really change it to a
listbox. And you're right, you just have to re-order the dataset. I
just can't find any way to prise that dataset out of the gridview, or
the objectdatasource that i'm using for it. There doesn't seem to be
any way to get to it.
Alvin Bruney [MVP] wrote:
> I don't believe this is built in simply because row order is not usually an
> overriding concern. But's it's really easy to do. Just re-order the
> datasource, dataview, or dataset and rebind.
>
> On second thought, if you need flexibility in row ordering, you should be
> using a listbox and not a gridview.
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> > One of the gridviews i'm using now apparently needs to have the added
> > functionality of re-arranging the order of the records it's
> > representing. These records have a priority field which the dataset
> > gets sorted on and I thought the quickest way to do this would be to
> > add "move up", "move down" buttons next to the grid which would shuffle
> > the rows up and down by swapping their priority field values and
> > updating.
> >
> > At least that seemed to be the quickest way before I spent a day
> > pouring through documentation trying to find a way to get at the
> > dataset of the gridview with no success whatsoever. Thing's locked up
> > tighter than a duck's. Is there any way on God's green earth to access
> > the data of a gridview? Or is there a better way to do this, you see it
> > all the time with listboxes I'd hoped I could get the gridview to play
> > along...
> >
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