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Sorting Reports

edited August 2001 in General
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

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  • edited August 2001
    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


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