The Cartobibliography Application
Sorting the Cartobibliography List
When the Cartobibliography List window is in list mode, the records are ordered according to the current sort criteria. The current sort criteria are displayed at the bottom of the Cartobibliography List window. You can change the sort order in one of two ways:
- Double-click on the field name that is at the top of a column in the List display. The selected column will become the primary sort key. (If any other columns were previously being used as sort keys, they will become secondary keys.) Initially a column-header that you double-click on will cause the selected field to be the primary sort key in ascending order. If you double-click on the column-header for the field that is already the primary sort key, the direction of sorting for that field (ascending vs. descending) will be reversed.
- Select Sort Order from the Options menu. (This choice is only available with the List view; it is not available with the Item Details view.) The following dialog box will be displayed (though the actual field names may well vary from what is shown in this example):
The dialog shows the current sort keys at the right and the potential sort keys at the left. Move fields from one list to the other by selecting them from the lists and then clicking on the appropriate buttons located between the two lists. Change the sort key order, or the choice of ascending (ASC) or descending (DESC), by selecting one or more items in the right-hand list and using buttons at the right.
Notes on sorting:
- Sorting is numeric for number fields (i.e. 100, 123, 1000 are sorted numerically, whereas these values sorted as texts would be 100, 1000, 123). Sorting is chronological by date fields. The program tries as best it can to interpret values in number fields as numbers and values in date fields as dates.
- The changes you make to the sort order are not retained when you exit the program. The next time you run the Cartobibliography Application, the list will be initially displayed in its default sort order.
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