Sorting Items on a Screen

Pickering, John (NORBORD) PICKERIJ@norbord.com
Thu, 12 Oct 2000 11:56:20 -0400


How big a rush are you in? If you can buy some time then you could wait for
8.39 and its reported support for sorted keys on Image masters.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Carol Kaffenberger [SMTP:kaffenbe@karmanos.org]
> Sent:	Thursday, October 12, 2000 11:20 AM
> To:	powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> Subject:	Sorting Items on a Screen
> 
> We have a screen that sequentially retrieves & displays
> records from an Image manual master dataset.
> The user selects an entry from the values on this screen and
> other programs are called to do the actual work.  There are
> more than 30 items on this screen.   We would like the items
> to be displayed in ascending order by the index of this
> dataset (ID CODE - See below).  I tried to add a sort key to
> the dataset via Architect, but sort keys are only valid for
> detail datasets.  I tried various ACCESS statements with no
> luck.
> 
> This is what it looks like now:
> 
>                Generic Table Maintenance           10:53
> EP8070KS
> 
> ID CODE   TABLE NAME                   ID CODE   TABLE NAME
> 01 TRIC     Tri-County Area City          02 SPAN    Spanish Surname List
> 03 SDIR     Street Direction                   04 SIGR Site Group & Desc
> 05 OLDS    ICD-I to ICD-II                  06 CTRL    Last# Comp Assigned
> 
> This is what I would like it to look like:
> 
>                Generic Table Maintenance           10:53
> EP8070KS
> 
> ID CODE   TABLE NAME                   ID CODE   TABLE NAME
> 01 CTRL    Last# Comp Assigned        02 OLDS     ICD-I to ICD-II
> 03 SDIR     Street Direction                   04 SIGR Site Group & Desc
> 05 SPAN    Spanish Surname List          06 TRIC Tri-County Area City
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> PH 8.19.C5, MPE/ix 5.5
> --
> Carol Kaffenberger
> Karmanos Cancer Institute
> Detroit, Michigan
> 
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