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[Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tim,
It seems like a nice feature. I guess you would like to have something
here? To be able to sort data elements by something other than their name
when creating a section?

Regards,
Jason




On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 5:34 AM, Timothy Harding <tharding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Order data elements based on "form name" if available first, then the
> "Data element name" if not.
>
> I see this in 2.20, 2.21, and 2.22
>
> This is to avoid: spending many hours creating section forms or custom
> forms when you want elements to appear alphabetically, but don't want to
> put the particular sorting words in the DE names themselves (from
> name:length concerns or specific naming conventions needed by the client
> organization, etc...)
>
> Example, here are three elements without a form name (this example is
> extremely rudimentary, only made to purposely expose the sorting mechanism)
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> Now I added some form names to the elements (tried in a completely
> different browser to make sure all the cache was clear)
>
> A = 2
> B = 3
> C = 1
>
> [image: Inline image 2]
> You can see they retained the DE name ordering, and now are pretty
> complicated looking even for only three elements. Here is a redacted
> example:
>
> [image: Inline image 3]
>
> I imagine this would just be an ORDER BY change somewhere deep in the
> code? Or is it ordered by the javascript itself via the "Name" attribute?
>
>
>
>
>
>
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