I also face the same issue of having to click twice when using hyperlinks as templatecolumns. The first click does nothing and only on the 2nd click does it actually sort.

 Please help..!This is urgent

here is a markup of the code.

Here is the code:

<script type="text/javascript" id="igClientScript">

   //initial sorting direction

   var lastSortDirection = 2;

   var sortAscImage = "";

   var sortDescImage = "";

   function setSortAscLocation(sortIconImageAsc)

    {

        sortAscImage = sortIconImageAsc;

    }

   function setSortDescLocation(sortIconImageDesc)

    {

        sortDescImage = sortIconImageDesc;

    }

  function WebDataGrid1_Sorting_ColumnSorted(sender, eventArgs)

    {

//if the hidden LinkText column is sorted, the sorting images should be displayed for the Link column

if (eventArgs.get_column().get_key() == "NameColumnHidden")

        {    

//based on the sort direction we inject Html into the column header's element.

           if (lastSortDirection == 2)

            {

               var currentHTML = sender.get_columns().get_columnFromKey("NameColumn").get_headerElement().innerHTML;

//note that this is a rough injection of the ascending/descending image into the header

                sender.get_columns().get_columnFromKey(

"NameColumn").get_headerElement().innerHTML = currentHTML + " " + "<img src='" + sortAscImage + "'>";

            }

           else

            {            

var currentHTML = sender.get_columns().get_columnFromKey("NameColumn").get_headerElement().innerHTML;

                sender.get_columns().get_columnFromKey(

"NameColumn").get_headerElement().innerHTML = currentHTML + " " + "<img src='" + sortDescImage + "'>";

            }

        }

    }

function WebDataGrid1_Sorting_ColumnSorting(sender, eventArgs)

    {

       //if the link column is being sorted, set the actual sorting to the hidden LinkText column

if (eventArgs.get_column().get_key() == "NameColumn")

        {

            eventArgs.set_column(sender.get_columns().get_columnFromKey(

"NameColumnHidden"));

//the sort direction needs to be modified based on the last sort on the link column.

if (lastSortDirection == 1)

            {

                eventArgs.set_sortDirection(2);

                lastSortDirection = eventArgs.get_sortDirection();

            }

           else

            {

                eventArgs.set_sortDirection(1);

                lastSortDirection = eventArgs.get_sortDirection();

            }

        }

    }

</script>

<ig:WebDataGrid Visible="False" ID="MyGrid" runat="server" Width="98%" 

OnPreRender="MyGrid_PreRender" OnInitializeRow="MyGrid_InitializeRow" AutoGenerateColumns="False"

DataKeyFields="ID"

<Columns>

<iggrid:BoundDataField Key="ID" DataFieldName="ID" Hidden="true">  

</iggrid:BoundDataField>      

<iggrid:BoundDataField Header-Text="Name" Key="NameColumnHidden" DataFieldName="Name" Hidden="true">

        <Header Text="Name"></Header> 

</iggrid:BoundDataField>

 <iggrid:TemplateDataField Key="NameColumn" Header-Text="Name">        

<ItemTemplate>            

<asp:HyperLink ID="explink" runat="server" ForeColor="Blue" Text='<% #DataBinder.Eval(Container,"DataItem.Name")  %>'></asp:HyperLink>      

</ItemTemplate>   

</iggrid:TemplateDataField>

<Behaviors> 

<iggrid:EditingCore>   

</iggrid:EditingCore>       

<iggrid:ColumnMoving>      

</iggrid:ColumnMoving>      

<iggrid:Sorting Enabled="True" SortingMode="Single">         

<SortingClientEvents ColumnSorting="WebDataGrid1_Sorting_ColumnSorting" ColumnSorted="WebDataGrid1_Sorting_ColumnSorted" />       

</iggrid:Sorting>  

<iggrid:Paging PageSize="25" QuickPages="25" PagerAppearance="Bottom" FirstPageText="First"       

LastPageText="Last" PagerMode="NumericFirstLast" PagingClientEvents-PageIndexChanged="PageIndexChanged">          

<PagingClientEvents PageIndexChanged="PageIndexChanged"></PagingClientEvents>   

</iggrid:Paging> 

<iggrid:Filtering Enabled="False">    

</iggrid:Filtering>

</Behaviors>

</ig:WebDataGrid>

Hello Dev,

Thank you for contacting Infragistics using forum!

Based on your code snippet, I have modified the isolated sample application and try to reproduce the behavior but it was not able to replicate and sorting is working fine without any issue and I am able to do the sorting on single click with your code snippet and javascript codes.

I have attached the modified sample project I used to test this, please test the sample application and let me know.  Please test this project on your PC; whether or not it works correctly may help indicate the nature of this problem. My test was performed using version 12.2.20122.2107 CLR 4.0.

Incase if you are still facing any issue please feel free to modify the sample application I have provided to you and revert I will look at that and try to help you on this. Thank you.

P.S.:
**Sample is attached. Please note that the ig_res folder has been omitted due to file size constraints. For proper styling of the grid you will want to add the ig_res folder. To do so, simple open the web form designer (aspx) and accept the styles when prompted.

did this break in 15.2? I have the issue where the first time you click on a column it does not sort, but the second time you click it sorts based on the previous click, and continues to be 1 click behind as you go... and when I download the samples here it does the same thing. thoughts?