Sort with two sortTypes

Randy Hengst iowahengst at mac.com
Sat Apr 8 15:58:31 EDT 2017


Thank you, Jacque and Jerry. I tried Jacque’s suggestion multiple times… why I didn’t try reversing the order I don’t know… it seems so obvious now. 

Thank you both for the quick response.

be well,
randy

Randy Hengst
www.classroomFocusedSoftware.com


> On Apr 8, 2017, at 2:26 PM, Jerry Jensen via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Other way around I think. Sort by time first, then sort by day
> .Jerry
> 
>> On Apr 8, 2017, at 12:07 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On 4/8/17 12:47 PM, Randy Hengst via use-livecode wrote:
>>> But I can’t figure out how to sort first on item 3, Days and then by
>>> item 2, Time. My goal is sort by matching Days and then by time in
>>> ascending order. The courses meeting on the same day would be grouped
>>> together by time earliest to latest.
>> 
>> Just run the sort twice:
>> 
>> sort lines of field "FIRSTyear_FALL" by item 3 of each
>> sort lines of field "FIRSTyear_FALL" by item 2 of each
>> 
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