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Posted: **Wed Jul 23, 2014 2:25 am**

Hi,
How do I determine if a specific column exist in a DG. In other word search for a column by header name.

Here's kinda what I want to accomplish:

if there is a column theColumn then
do some stuff
else
do some different stuff
end if

Thanks,
Tom

Posted: **Wed Jul 23, 2014 4:17 am**

Hi.

try this:

answer the dgProp[columns} of grp "yourDG"

Craig Newman

Posted: **Wed Jul 23, 2014 4:41 am**

Thanks Craig. I didn't think it would be that simple.

Tom

Posted: **Wed Jul 23, 2014 12:28 pm**

Hi Tom,

quailcreek wrote:I didn't think it would be that simple.

this is Livecode, get used to it!

Best

Klaus

Posted: **Wed Jul 23, 2014 1:38 pm**

You're right Klaus. But remember, where talking DataGrids here.

Tom

Posted: **Wed Jul 23, 2014 3:07 pm**

quailcreek wrote:But remember, where talking DataGrids here.

Touché!

Searching for a column name in a DataGrid