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Submitted by Pavel on 2019/03/21 06:02

Hi there,

It seems to me that between sessions the order in which items (TLIs) are listed changes slightly, i.e. without me interfering I seem to find some before others that I'm fairly sure I wrote earlier. Or am I imagining things? What is the default behaviour as to listing order of items?

Thanks

Pavel

Comments

Do you have your grid set to manual sort? (Grid>Sort>None(Manual))

Maybe Pierre can confirm, but I believe that if the grid is set to manual sort it should maintain the current sort unless you move the items manually or apply a sort command.

My experience has been the manual sort doesn't always maintain the current sort. I experience this most often when I'm going into and out of hoisting.

If your field is sorted alphabetically, it's easy enough to apply a new sort to put things back in proper order.

If you want the field sorted by time created, you can display the ItemCreated column and sort by that.

When I have a list of items where it's important to maintain a sort (eg a long series of notes on a book), I use a "sequence" text field where each note receives a sequential number (this can be entered manually or using the renumber tool, which is very helpful). That way I know that no matter what happens, I can always put everything back into proper order by applying an alphanumeric sort to that column.

If you use a text column for sorting numbers, put an appropriate number of zero's at the beginning (eg if you anticipate 100 notes, number them 001, 002 etc)

Wayne

Very helpful, Wayne. I'll experiment with the suggested settings a bit. Thanks a lot!

Pavel

You're welcome. I use the renumber tool extensively for numbering long lists of notes. It's a big time saver. Let me know if you get into using that and I'll give you a couple of tips.

Wayne