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How to maintain the group expanded states while ungrouping and grouping the columns at runtime in WPF DataGrid (SfDataGrid)?

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WPF DataGrid (SfDataGrid) allows you to maintain the expanded state of the group while ungrouping and grouping the columns at runtime by handling the events SfDataGrid.View.CollectionChanged, SfDataGrid.GroupExpanded and SfDataGrid.GroupCollapsed.

public Dictionary<string, bool> GroupStates = new Dictionary<string, bool>();
 
public MainWindow()
{
    InitializeComponent();
    this.dataGrid.Loaded += OnDataGrid_Loaded;
}
 
private void OnDataGrid_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    this.dataGrid.View.CollectionChanged += OnView_CollectionChanged;
    this.dataGrid.GroupExpanded += OnDataGrid_GroupExpanded;
    this.dataGrid.GroupCollapsed += OnDataGrid_GroupCollapsed;
}
 
private void OnDataGrid_GroupCollapsed(object sender, GroupChangedEventArgs e)
{
    GroupStates[e.Group.Key.ToString()] = false;
}
 
private void OnDataGrid_GroupExpanded(object sender, GroupChangedEventArgs e)
{
    GroupStates[e.Group.Key.ToString()] = true;
}
 
private void OnView_CollectionChanged(object sender, System.Collections.Specialized.NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
    var collectionViewWrapper = sender as GridQueryableCollectionViewWrapper;
    if (collectionViewWrapper != null)
    {
        if (collectionViewWrapper.Groups != null && collectionViewWrapper.Groups.Count > 0)
        {
            foreach (var group in collectionViewWrapper.Groups)
            {
                var grp = group as Group;
                var key = grp.Key.ToString();
                if (GroupStates.ContainsKey(key))
                {
                    grp.IsExpanded = GroupStates[key];
                    while (!grp.IsBottomLevel)
                    {
                        var innergroups = grp.Groups;
                        if (innergroups != null && innergroups.Count > 0)
                        {
                            foreach (var innerGroup in innergroups)
                            {
                                if (GroupStates.ContainsKey(innerGroup.Key.ToString()))
                                    innerGroup.IsExpanded = GroupStates[innerGroup.Key.ToString()];
                                else
                                    GroupStates.Add(innerGroup.Key.ToString(), innerGroup.IsExpanded);
                                grp = innerGroup;
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    GroupStates.Add(key, grp.IsExpanded);
                }
            }
        }
    }
} 

 

Grouping

Take a moment to peruse the documentation, where you can find about grouping in SfDataGrid, with code examples.

You can download the example from GitHub

 

Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed learning about how to to maintain group expanded states in WPF DataGrid.

You can refer to our WPF DataGrid feature tour
page to know about its other groundbreaking feature representations. You can also explore our WPF DataGrid documentation to understand how to create and manipulate data.

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