# Update a single cell in a Flash data grid component

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/update-a-single-cell-in-a-flash-data-grid-component/327721>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 22, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/update-a-single-cell-in-a-flash-data-grid-component/327721 "2012-03-22T18:46:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jeffrey\_Gilbert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e495f1/32.png) [@Jeffrey\_Gilbert](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeffrey_Gilbert)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/update-a-single-cell-in-a-flash-data-grid-component/327721/1 "2012-03-22T18:46:30Z")

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Hi,

I’ve been working with the flash data grid component, and I want to update just one cell in the data grid without updating the entire dataset. I haven’t found anyway to do this and the object inheritance makes it really difficult to track down properties of specific child elements. Here’s a snippet i use to get data from a specific data cell:

var cellData:String = \_currentPlaylistDataGrid.columns[0].itemToLabel(\_currentPlaylistDataGrid.getItemAt(\_currentSlideID));

What’s the best way to do this? It’s NOT on a click event or interactive event.