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Classpublic class GroupingField
InheritanceGroupingField Inheritance Object

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

The GroupingField class represents individual data fields that you use to group flat data for display by the AdvancedDataGrid control.

To populate the AdvancedDataGrid control with grouped data, you create an instance of the GroupingCollection class from your flat data, and then pass that GroupingCollection instance to the data provider of the AdvancedDataGrid control. To specify the grouping fields of your flat data, you pass a Grouping instance to the GroupingCollection.grouping property. The Grouping instance contains an Array of GroupingField instances, one per grouping field.

The following example uses the Grouping class to define two grouping fields: Region and Territory.

  <mx:AdvancedDataGrid id="myADG"    
    <mx:dataProvider> 
      <mx:GroupingCollection id="gc" source="{dpFlat}"> 
        <mx:grouping> 
          <mx:Grouping> 
            <mx:GroupingField name="Region"/> 
            <mx:GroupingField name="Territory"/> 
          </mx:Grouping> 
        </mx:grouping> 
      </mx:GroupingCollection> 
    </mx:dataProvider>  
     
    <mx:columns> 
      <mx:AdvancedDataGridColumn dataField="Region"/> 
      <mx:AdvancedDataGridColumn dataField="Territory"/> 
      <mx:AdvancedDataGridColumn dataField="Territory_Rep"/> 
      <mx:AdvancedDataGridColumn dataField="Actual"/> 
      <mx:AdvancedDataGridColumn dataField="Estimate"/> 
    </mx:columns> 
  </mx:AdvancedDataGrid>
  

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The <mx.GroupingField> inherits all the tag attributes of its superclass, and defines the following tag attributes:

  <mx:GroupingField
  Properties 
    caseInsensitive="false|true"
    compareFunction="No default"
    descending="false|true"
    groupingFunction="No default"
    groupingObjectFunction="No default"
    name="null"
    numeric="false|true"
    summaries="No default"
  />
  

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Public Properties
 PropertyDefined By
  caseInsensitive : Boolean
Set to true if the sort for this field should be case-insensitive.
GroupingField
  compareFunction : Function
The function that compares two items during a sort of items for the associated collection.
GroupingField
 Inheritedconstructor : Object
A reference to the class object or constructor function for a given object instance.
Object
  descending : Boolean
Set to true if the sort for this field should be in descending order.
GroupingField
  groupingFunction : Function
A function that determines the label for this group.
GroupingField
  groupingObjectFunction : Function
A callback function to run on each group node to determine the grouping object.
GroupingField
  name : String
The name of the field to be sorted.
GroupingField
  numeric : Boolean
Specifies that if the field being sorted contains numeric (Number/int/uint) values, or String representations of numeric values, the comparitor uses a numeric comparison.
GroupingField
  summaries : Array
Array of SummaryRow instances that define the group-level summaries.
GroupingField
Public Methods
 MethodDefined By
  
GroupingField(name:String = null, caseInsensitive:Boolean = false, descending:Boolean = false, numeric:Boolean = false)
Constructor.
GroupingField
 Inherited
Indicates whether an object has a specified property defined.
Object
 Inherited
Indicates whether an instance of the Object class is in the prototype chain of the object specified as the parameter.
Object
 Inherited
Indicates whether the specified property exists and is enumerable.
Object
 Inherited
Sets the availability of a dynamic property for loop operations.
Object
 Inherited
Returns the string representation of this object, formatted according to locale-specific conventions.
Object
 Inherited
Returns the string representation of the specified object.
Object
 Inherited
Returns the primitive value of the specified object.
Object
Property Detail

caseInsensitive

property
caseInsensitive:Boolean

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

Set to true if the sort for this field should be case-insensitive.

The default value is false.



Implementation
    public function get caseInsensitive():Boolean
    public function set caseInsensitive(value:Boolean):void

compareFunction

property 
compareFunction:Function

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

The function that compares two items during a sort of items for the associated collection. If you specify a compareFunction property in a Grouping object, Flex ignores any compareFunction properties of the GroupingField objects.

The compare function must have the following signature:

function myCompare(a:Object, b:Object):int

This function must return the following values:

  • -1, if a should appear before b in the sorted sequence.
  • 0, if a equals b.
  • 1, if a should appear after b in the sorted sequence.

The default value is an internal compare function that can perform a string, numeric, or date comparison in ascending or descending order, with case-sensitive or case-insensitive string comparisons. Specify your own function only if you need a custom comparison algorithm. This is normally only the case if a calculated field is used in a display.



Implementation
    public function get compareFunction():Function
    public function set compareFunction(value:Function):void

descending

property 
descending:Boolean

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

Set to true if the sort for this field should be in descending order.

The default value is false.



Implementation
    public function get descending():Boolean
    public function set descending(value:Boolean):void

groupingFunction

property 
public var groupingFunction:Function

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

A function that determines the label for this group. By default, the group displays the text for the field in the data that matches the filed specified by the name property. However, sometimes you want to group the items based on more than one field in the data, or group based on something that is not a simple String field. In such a case, you specify a callback function by using the groupingFunction property.

A callback function might convert a number for the month into the String for the month, or group multiple items into a single group based on some criteria other than the actual value of the field.

For the GroupField, the method signature has the following form:

groupingFunction(item:Object, field:GroupField):String

Where item contains the data item object, and field contains the GroupField object.

For example, a groupingFunction which returns the first character as the group name can be written as -
      private function groupFunc(item:Object, field:GroupingField):String
      {
          return item[field.name].toString().substr(0, 1);
      }
      

groupingObjectFunction

property 
public var groupingObjectFunction:Function

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

A callback function to run on each group node to determine the grouping object. By default, a new Object will be created for group nodes.

You can supply a groupingObjectFunction that provides the appropriate Object for group nodes.

The method signature is:

      myGroupObjectFunction(label:String):Object

Where label contains the value that will be shown for that group node. The function returns an Object that will be used for group nodes.

For example, a groupingObjectFunction which returns an Object containing a "name" property with value as "Bob" can be written as -
      private function groupObjFunction(label:String):Object
      {
          var obj:Object = {};
          obj.name = "Bob";
     
          return obj;
      }
      

name

property 
name:String

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

The name of the field to be sorted.

The default value is null.



Implementation
    public function get name():String
    public function set name(value:String):void

numeric

property 
numeric:Boolean

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

Specifies that if the field being sorted contains numeric (Number/int/uint) values, or String representations of numeric values, the comparitor uses a numeric comparison. If this property is false, fields with String representations of numbers are sorted using String comparison, so 100 precedes 99, because "1" is a lower string value than "9".

The default value is false.



Implementation
    public function get numeric():Boolean
    public function set numeric(value:Boolean):void

summaries

property 
public var summaries:Array

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

Array of SummaryRow instances that define the group-level summaries. Specify one or more SummaryRow instances to define the data summaries, as the following example shows:

      <mx:AdvancedDataGrid id="myADG" 
         width="100%" height="100%" 
         initialize="gc.refresh();">        
         <mx:dataProvider>
             <mx:GroupingCollection id="gc" source="{dpFlat}">
                 <mx:Grouping>
                     <mx:GroupingField name="Region">
                       <mx:summaries>
                           <mx:SummaryRow summaryPlacement="group">
                             <mx:fields>
                                 <mx:SummaryField dataField="Actual" 
                                     label="Min Actual" operation="MIN"/>
                                 <mx:SummaryField dataField="Actual" 
                                     label="Max Actual" operation="MAX"/>
                             </mx:fields>
                           </mx:SummaryRow>
                         </mx:summaries>
                     </mx:GroupingField>
                 </mx:Grouping>
             </mx:GroupingCollection>
         </mx:dataProvider>        
         
         <mx:columns>
             <mx:AdvancedDataGridColumn dataField="Region"/>
             <mx:AdvancedDataGridColumn dataField="Territory_Rep"
                 headerText="Territory Rep"/>
             <mx:AdvancedDataGridColumn dataField="Actual"/>
             <mx:AdvancedDataGridColumn dataField="Estimate"/>
             <mx:AdvancedDataGridColumn dataField="Min Actual"/>
             <mx:AdvancedDataGridColumn dataField="Max Actual"/>
         </mx:columns>
      </mx:AdvancedDataGrid>  
      

Related API Elements

Constructor Detail

GroupingField

()Constructor
public function GroupingField(name:String = null, caseInsensitive:Boolean = false, descending:Boolean = false, numeric:Boolean = false)

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

Constructor.

Parameters
name:String (default = null) — The name of the property that this field uses for comparison. If the object is a simple type, pass null.
 
caseInsensitive:Boolean (default = false) — When sorting strings, tells the comparitor whether to ignore the case of the values.
 
descending:Boolean (default = false) — Tells the comparator whether to arrange items in descending order.
 
numeric:Boolean (default = false) — Tells the comparitor whether to compare sort items as numbers, instead of alphabetically.