iGrid Control Tour - Cell Grouping

The iGrid Control can group cells. You can use this feature to visually create sections of rows with the similar or equal values. You can also create grouped cells displayed in a single row with another cells of this row like message preview mode in MS Outlook.

iGrid supports two types of grouped cells - "group rows" and "row text cells". In the first case, a group row extends across all of the cells and displays only the information from the last column of the grid (which was set as the "RowText" column and doesn't appear in the grid header):

In the second case, data from the "RowText" column is drawn directly underneath standard cells (like the message preview in MS Outlook). You can either specify the column that this row starts drawing at or allow the grid to work this out automatically (when it starts drawing at the first cell which is included in the selection box):

Using grouped cells and the ability to specify the first column from which grouping is starting for group rows, you can create advanced powerful applications in which users can group data by several criteria. See how we created a demo application with the same functionality as MS Outlook using our grid: