Sort cards doesn't work in 7.0

Timothy Miller gandalf at doctorTimothyMiller.com
Mon Oct 27 16:32:05 EDT 2014


On Oct 27, 2014, at 11:27 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 10/27/2014, 1:08 PM, Timothy Miller wrote:
>> --Paste field "intakesecs" and field "patient name" onto card 1. I
>> put dummy values into those fields, don't know what happens if they
>> are empty.
> 
> They should sort to the front.

> 
>> I have not exhaustively investigated the issue, but my hypothesis is
>> that the "sort cards" command looks for the sort index field on the
>> first card it encounters. If the field is not found, the sort command
>> terminates.
> 
> You could test by getting the result after the sort command, it might tell you something. I suspect you'll find "no such object" in the error.



Hi Jacque,

The result from the failed sorts was empty. That's one of the reasons I suspect a bug.

Cheers,


Tim Miller



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