I don't think you understand my request. I already understand how to set column captions. My issues is that the captions are not always properly displayed when the grid is exported or in the review changes dialog box!

How to replicate:

1. Create a grid with a column that has a name="Name1" and a caption="Caption1".

2. Display the grid. Notice that the column header says "Caption1"

3. Use the export tools to export the grid to HTML or PDF. Notice that the header says "Name1"

THis also occures in the review changes dialog box, in the changes box, the changed cells are listed by column name rather than by column caption.

I have followed the steps to reproduce the issue. I have WebGrid export result file shows “Caption1” rather than “Name1” as you mentioned earlier. Only the export to xml option that will use column name rather than column caption in the export result file.

I attached the test page that I created to test the scenario. You can make any changes to the test page so it replicates the issue for further investigation.

About the review changes dialog box, currently it is the default behavior of WebGrid to shows changed cells listed by column name rather than column caption. Please submit this valuable feedback as feature request in “Community Center” of Intersoft Developer Network (http://dev2.intersoftpt.com). WebGrid development team will check the feasibility to implement the feature in the upcoming build.

In our grid we have PostControlState set to False and we were changing the caption value in a "If Not Page.isPostBack conditional statement. This is why our captions weren't being displayed properly on export.

I tried to follow your scenario based on your information.

In our grid we have PostControlState set to False and we were changing the caption value in a "If Not Page.isPostBack conditional statement. This is why our captions weren't being displayed properly on export.

I suggest you not to use “If Not Page.IsPostBack” conditional statement to change the caption value. By disabling this conditional statement (apply all setting, without postback condition), the new caption value will be shown in the exported result.

Please let me know whether this helps or not.