However, I’ve found that if you have to set a custom sort function, then the DataGrid and AdvancedDataGrid doesn’t show the ascending/descending marker by default even though the data is properly sorted. I tried your suggestion to see if it would resolve my issue, but unfortunately it does not work either.

[code]

import mx.collections.Sort;
import mx.collections.SortField;
import mx.collections.XMLListCollection;

private accounts:XMLListCollection;
private function init():void {
accounts = new XMLListCollection();
accounts.sort = new Sort();
accounts.sort.fields = [new SortField("name", true, false, false)];
accounts.refresh();
}

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