® DoveSoft Computing April 2011                             Made with Xara Web Designer 7 Premium This page demonstrates the DataGrid component to the left and the Advanced DataGrid component below. Both components are populated by reading XML files. The XML files can be created by any application such as Microsoft Excel or Access and the data grid contents can be updated simply by uploading an updated XML file to the web server. The DataGrid offers greater functionality than an HTML table. For example, click on any column heading to sort the data or column widths can be adjusted by dragging the divider.  However, the HTML table is a much smaller filesize than the data grid SWF. The  AdvancedDataGrid control has extra features that support better data visualisation, aggregation, and formatting. Its main use is to show a hybrid control in which data is contained in rows (similar to a DataGrid) but that can display a hierarchy like a Tree component. The AdvancedDataGrid can also be used to create summary rows, which are extra rows that display summary information about the preceding rows. Additionally, the AdvancedDataGrid offers multicolumn sorting, which you can use to sort entries in your DataGrid with different columns as sorting parameters.