I have a tableview that is populated via a QSFPM and QSqlRelationalTableModel and depending on different criteria I move columns using the code:
Qt Code: 
  1. QHeaderView *header= ui->printView->horizontalHeader();
  2.     header->moveSection( 12, 0 );
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The Tableview displays properly and then I want to print the table. I do so using a HTML and iterate through the tableview using:
Qt Code: 
  1. for (int i=0; i<viewColumns; i++)
  2.    {
  3.       if (!ui->printView->isColumnHidden(i))
  4.           mainTable += "<td><font size=\"3\">" + ui->printView->model()->headerData(i,Qt::Horizontal).toString() + "</font></td>";
  5.    }
  6.    mainTable += "</tr>";
  7.  
  8.    for (int r=0; r<viewRows; r++ )
  9.    {
  10.      if (ui->printView->isRowHidden(r)) 
  11.        continue;
  12.  
  13.      mainTable += "<tr>";
  14.  
  15.      for (int c =0; c<viewColumns; c++)
  16.      {
  17.        if (!ui->printView->isColumnHidden(c))
  18.        {
  19.            if (ui->printView->model()->index(r,c).data(Qt::BackgroundRole)==Qt::yellow)
  20.               mainTable +="<td bgcolor=\"yellow\"><font size=\"3\">" + ui->printView->model()->index(r,c).data(Qt::DisplayRole).toString()+ "</font></td>" ;
  21.            else if (ui->printView->model()->index(r,c).data(Qt::BackgroundRole)==Qt::red)
  22.                mainTable +="<td bgcolor=\"red\"><font size=\"3\">" + ui->printView->model()->index(r,c).data(Qt::DisplayRole).toString()+ "</font></td>" ;
  23.           else
  24.               mainTable +="<td><font size=\"3\">" + ui->printView->model()->index(r,c).data(Qt::DisplayRole).toString()+ "</font></td>" ;
  25.        }
  26.  
  27.      }
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The HTML has the columns in the original order but it displays in the modified order. Why is this? I thought the tableView just displays the info from the model and it doesn't know about the underlying data structure. I might be able to correct this with some fancy coding by setting variables to keep track of the column changes, but think there must be an easier way. Any ideas?