Hi,
It is great that the end users can move fields around by simply clicking the column headers and dragging them to a new location.
How can they adjust the spanning though?
Imagine a single 'line' of column headers, containing several fields. The user can currently drag a field that could contain a lot of data (i.e. 'Description'), to be placed on a second header 'line', hence, placing it under the other fields. That's a start, but the Description column will now be only as wide as the column above it (i.e. 'Ref' - which is quite small). What the user wants to then do is be able to span the description field under all available columns on the grid.
I was hoping that by holding a modifier key down and dragging the splitter between the column headers, they would adjust their spanning instead of their width. Is this possible? or are there any plans to provide this?
Regads,
Dave
Hello Dave,
Indeed, there is no way to achieve this by the user. If this has to be implemented, difference between Spanning and Resizing has to be made - the idea with a modifier key is nice. I think this would be a cool feature to have and we encourage you to submit this as a feature request here. I will give it a try and see if this is easily achievable and will post here if I manage to come up with something.
Cheers Alex,
I've submitted it as a feature request as you suggest.
Hello,
This is still not implemented, so I have logged a separate Product Idea for Field Spanning. I have sent your Product Idea directly to our product management team. Our product team chooses new Product Ideas for development based on popular feedback from our customer base. Infragistics continues to monitor application development for all of our products, so as trends appear in requested ideas, we can plan accordingly.
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Has this feature been implemented yet or are there any plans to implement it? Our customers were used to adjusting column and row spans in the WinForms version using the UltraWinGrid. It would be a shame to lose this functionality in the upgrade to WPF.
Hi Alex,
Nice try, thanks for having a go. I've had a play with it for a while and can't make it behave correctly either. I'll post back here if I do find a solution.
Cheers,
Dave,
I got something working - fields are spanning but I am still struggling with one thing. I am using the SizeChanged event of the LabelPresenter and Shift Modifier key to make Spanning. However, when you "resize-span" of of the fields, the one above or below it resizes also. This is what I am trying to avoid.
I will probably have to re-think my strategy :)
You can find the project that I am working on attached to this post. Maybe you can find a way.