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icon3.gif   Comment on: Alphabetize Quick Option filter, posted by David Pilgram on Mon Aug 10 21:07:15 2009 
    icon2.gif   Re: Comment on: Alphabetize Quick Option filter, posted by David Pilgram on Mon Aug 10 21:19:50 2009 
    icon2.gif   Re: Comment on: Alphabetize Quick Option filter, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Aug 11 08:38:56 2009 
       icon2.gif   Re: Comment on: Alphabetize Quick Option filter, posted by David Pilgram on Tue Aug 11 10:07:08 2009 
          icon2.gif   Re: Comment on: Alphabetize Quick Option filter, posted by Dennis Seitz on Tue Aug 11 17:46:33 2009 
Message ID: 66511     Entry time: Tue Aug 11 10:07:08 2009     In reply to: 66510     Reply to this: 66515
Icon: Reply  Author: David Pilgram  Author Email: David.Pilgram@epost.org.uk 
Category: Comment  OS: Linux  ELOG Version: 2.7.7-2251 
Subject: Re: Comment on: Alphabetize Quick Option filter 
Thanks Stefan!  Works great.

> Ok, that makes sense, so I changed it to
> 
> Sort Attribute Options Status = 1
> 
> as you suggested.
> 
> > (For some reason I could not add this in Dennis's thread.)
> > 
> > I like this new feature, BUT
> > 
> > I happen to have two Options:   Options System, and Options Status.
> > 
> > System are a very few items, whereas Status has a long list, which, like Dennis's example, can be added to. 
> > Keeping the latter in alpha order is great, but it's a shame that the cost is that Options System are also
> > sorted alphabetically, whereas it has a natural order which it would be preferable to keep - for example (and
> > this is made up)
> > 
> > Options System: 3.1, NT, 2000, XP, Vista
> > 
> > where the natural order here is chronological.
> > 
> > Perhaps the configuration file option could be more specific, for example
> > 
> > Sort attribute Options Status = 1
> > 
> > which would then NOT sort Options System.  If both are needed to be sorted, both should be specified, or back to
> > the original syntax which defaults to sort *all* Options.
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