By default, elog enties are sorted by their ID number. When viewing a logbook in Full or Summary, they are
shown in strict order of ID. In Threaded, entries are shown in strict order of ID for the latest entry of each
thread, and then previous entries (in reply to) back from the latest one.
In collapsed mode, it is only the starting entry of each thread is shown (or the latest one if "collapse to
last" chosen, but that's a detail).
I have a couple of logbooks where I'd like the default sorting to be by another numeric attribute that I enter.
Now this works fine in Full or Summary mode. In threaded mode (e.g. default for this forum, where every entry
is shown but are grouped by thread), it works in as much as all the entres are there and in order, but it
doesn't quite look the same as when sorting by ID - the replies are not each offset further right beneath the
entry it is in reply to, but all just slightly offset to the first entry.
If you try to [completely] collapse the threaded mode to just one line per threaded topic - it doesn't. Looks
(almost) the same as threaded.
I was hoping to get the list of entries collapsed to one line per thread, in order of the numeric attribute, but
I cannot seem to get this to happen. Have I missed something here? Or is it possible at all? |