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| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/components/components-grid.asciidoc | 16 |
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diff --git a/documentation/components/components-grid.asciidoc b/documentation/components/components-grid.asciidoc index ed118ef726..957a9a7fb4 100644 --- a/documentation/components/components-grid.asciidoc +++ b/documentation/components/components-grid.asciidoc @@ -680,19 +680,15 @@ direction)#, which allows specifying the sort direction. grid.sort(nameColumn, SortDirection.DESCENDING); ---- -To sort on multiple columns, you need to use the fluid sort API with -[methodname]#sort(Sort)#, which allows chaining sorting rules. Sorting rules are -created with the static [methodname]#by()# method, which defines the primary -sort column, and [methodname]#then()#, which can be used to specify any -secondary sort columns. They default to ascending sort order, but the sort -direction can be given with an optional parameter. - +To sort by multiple columns, you need to use the fluid sort builder API +[classname]#GridSortOrderBuilder#, which allows you to easily construct sorting information to be passed to grid's [methodname]#setSortOrder()# method. +A sort builder is created with the static methods [methodname]#asc()# and [methodname]#desc()#, +and additional sorting information can by chained with [methodname]#thenAsc()# and [methodname]#thenDesc()#. [source, java] ---- -// Sort first by city and then by name -grid.sort(Sort.by(cityColumn, SortDirection.ASCENDING) - .then(nameColumn, SortDirection.DESCENDING)); +// Sort first by city (ascending) and then by name (descending) +grid.setSortOrder(GridSortOrder.asc(cityColumn).thenDesc(nameColumn)) ---- |