SPGridView - sorting Dates doesn't work properly & how to display the title column as link?

Question

Hi,
I've got a SPGridView that is being filled with data from several lists. Some of them are a date-field and a title-field. I already added sorting, paging and filtering options and at first look they seem to work fine. But now I noticed that sorting dates
doesn't work as expected. If I select ascending sorting, the result is something like this:
01.08.2014
02.08.2014
17.07.2014
18.07.2014
23.07.2014
If I select descending sorting, the result is this:
23.07.2014
18.07.2014
17.07.2014
02.08.2014
01.08.2014
This isn't what I want obviously. 
I just added the EventReceiver for the sorting like it is shown in several tutorials:
(The date field is a BoundField.)
grid.Sorting += new GridViewSortEventHandler(grid_Sorting);
private void grid_Sorting(object sender, GridViewSortEventArgs e)
if (ViewState["FilterExpression"] != null)
gridDS.FilterExpression = (string)ViewState["FilterExpression"];
And my second problem is how to add a link to the title column. In my grid I'm displaying tasks from different lists and I want to link the title to the related task. I stumbled accross HyperLinkFields and tried this:
HyperLinkField hyperLinkField = new HyperLinkField();
hyperLinkField.DataTextField = "Titel";
hyperLinkField.DataNavigateUrlFields = new string[] { "Titel" };
hyperLinkField.DataNavigateUrlFormatString = "{0}";
hyperLinkField.HeaderText = "Titel";
hyperLinkField.SortExpression = "Titel";
grid.Columns.Add(hyperLinkField);
The resulting link is something like ...sites/MySite/_catalogs/masterpage/A1-V1-2 where "A1-V1-2" is the name of the task and also shown in the title field.
The actual link should look more like ...sites/MySite/Lists/mytasklistname/DispForm.aspx?ID=.... or something like that to display the task details. How could I achieve that?
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Server/MS-SharePoint/Q_27718782.html
Here is the exact code you need to use:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/ar/sharepointcustomization/thread/c463a8c6-4806-4233-b6a4-8db8369c5fc2
http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/53459/change-title-linked-to-item-with-edit-menu-to-different-column
Open the AllItems.aspx page for the specific list.
Search for the <ViewFields> tag
List item LinkToItem="TRUE" to whichever column you want the link:
<ViewFields><br/>
<FieldRef Name="Attachments"/><br/>
<FieldRef Name="LinkTitle"/><br/>
<FieldRef Name="linkThisColumn" LinkToItem="TRUE"/><br/>
<FieldRef Name="data_x0020_column"/><br/>
<FieldRef Name="Another_x0020_column"/><br/>
</ViewFields><br/>
http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/58954/link-title-in-list-to-value-in-url-column
Create calculated column.
Insert following formula -
="<a href='"&UrlFieldName&"'>"&Title&"</a>"
Set "data type returned from this formula is" to integer.
As a result on list view you will see the title with link to your url.
UPD: It seems that URL field is not valid for calculated column, as workaround you can copy url value in a receiver into the another text field, which is not shown on the view.
If this helped you resolve your issue, please mark it Answered