Re: sort problems....bug or brain fart?
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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Matt:Without doing a lot of work to duplicate the problem I will state that themost common problem with sorting data is that it sorts within found recordsthat are equally ranked. Thus you can find all the records in the database,but unless they're equally ranked, all the records won't necessarily sortedthe way you expect. To force the results to all have the same ranking (hitcount) set a hidden variable allhit to 1.John.>Hello list!>>I am having a problem designating a sort order from a search form and I>cannot see what's wrong. If any of you can tell me what is wrong with the>following I would be greatly appreciative.>>If not then perhaps this is a bug......>>Tested under the following conditions:>Hardware: Umax S900 604e/200, Apple 6150 (tested on both platforms)>Software: WebStar 2.01, WebCatalog Plugin 2.0f1,>Browsers: CyberDog2.0, Netscape 3.01, IE 3.0>>