topic Re: How to Place New Items to beginning of a Dojo Data Grid / Data Store in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/how-to-place-new-items-to-beginning-of-a-dojo-data/m-p/451280#M41691 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">So I have a search function that populates the a Datagrid through it's data store and a manual selection tool that adds or removes items from the grid.&nbsp; Items are added with: <STRONG>data_store.newItem(data);</STRONG><BR /><BR />The add function places the new items at the end of the grid.&nbsp; I would like this new entry to populate the new item at the top of the grid.&nbsp; Since I am using the data store and not an array, I can't use a function like unshift to place at the beginning of the array.&nbsp; I thought I had seen someone on these forums solve this before, but I can't find the post.&nbsp; Ideas anyone?</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Have you tried using sort based on a predictable property?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If you don't have a great property to sort on, you could have a hidden property that acts as a sorting mechanism for new items added to the store. All older items might have sort=1, while items you've added to the store recently have sort=0, and you'd sort your store based on that hidden field. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Last question, have you tried using dgrid over datagrid? It's far far easier to use and included in the ESRI JSAPI.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:08:45 GMT JonathanUihlein 2013-12-18T15:08:45Z How to Place New Items to beginning of a Dojo Data Grid / Data Store https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/how-to-place-new-items-to-beginning-of-a-dojo-data/m-p/451279#M41690 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>So I have a search function that populates the a Datagrid through it's data store and a manual selection tool that adds or removes items from the grid.&nbsp; Items are added with: </SPAN><STRONG>data_store.newItem(data);</STRONG><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The add function places the new items at the end of the grid.&nbsp; I would like this new entry to populate the new item at the top of the grid.&nbsp; Since I am using the data store and not an array, I can't use a function like unshift to place at the beginning of the array.&nbsp; I thought I had seen someone on these forums solve this before, but I can't find the post.&nbsp; Ideas anyone?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 18 Dec 2013 12:58:22 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/how-to-place-new-items-to-beginning-of-a-dojo-data/m-p/451279#M41690 ThomasHynes 2013-12-18T12:58:22Z Re: How to Place New Items to beginning of a Dojo Data Grid / Data Store https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/how-to-place-new-items-to-beginning-of-a-dojo-data/m-p/451280#M41691 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">So I have a search function that populates the a Datagrid through it's data store and a manual selection tool that adds or removes items from the grid.&nbsp; Items are added with: <STRONG>data_store.newItem(data);</STRONG><BR /><BR />The add function places the new items at the end of the grid.&nbsp; I would like this new entry to populate the new item at the top of the grid.&nbsp; Since I am using the data store and not an array, I can't use a function like unshift to place at the beginning of the array.&nbsp; I thought I had seen someone on these forums solve this before, but I can't find the post.&nbsp; Ideas anyone?</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Have you tried using sort based on a predictable property?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If you don't have a great property to sort on, you could have a hidden property that acts as a sorting mechanism for new items added to the store. All older items might have sort=1, while items you've added to the store recently have sort=0, and you'd sort your store based on that hidden field. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Last question, have you tried using dgrid over datagrid? It's far far easier to use and included in the ESRI JSAPI.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:08:45 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/how-to-place-new-items-to-beginning-of-a-dojo-data/m-p/451280#M41691 JonathanUihlein 2013-12-18T15:08:45Z