Sorting Reports

rbuser

Under the fields editor in the TppDBPipeLine object I've noticed a few
sorting properties for fields (i.e. Sort, Sortable, SortExpression,
SortOrder and SortType). Can these properties be used to sort data in a
report? If so how can they be used to do this? And if not what are these
fields for?

Thank-you,
David Reid

digitalmetaphors

Settings these properties will have no effect. DADE uses TppField objects
and these properties are utilized in DADE. What we'll need to do is create
another field class for the DADE inplementation so that all of these
properties are not shown. Only the FieldAlias, FieldName, FieldLength, and
DataType properties are settable from the fields editor of a pipeline on a
form, such that it will have an impact on the report. If you set any of the
other properties in the object inspector when creating a field in the fields
editor, they will simply be ignored.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors