Sorting cards

[Paul Dupuis]

I'm not sure about this, but do all the cards have the SAME background 
with the SAME fields (I think they were Category and Title?). If you 
have mixed backgrounds - I think there may be sort problems sorting on 
background fields. Again, this is from memory and I could be wrong.


On 1/1/2022 3:10 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
> I'm still not having much luck with this. Everything works as expected 
> except that the first 50 cards or so simply don't move. I can't find 
> anything different about them that would explain it.
>
> Anyone out there have an inclination to take a look and find what I'm 
> missing? There's nothing confidential about the stack.
>
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> On 12/31/21 12:05 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
>> Thanks for all the ideas, guys. I seem to get the most consistent 
>> results if I sort by the short ID of each card and then follow that 
>> with the sort for category or title. Because the data was imported 
>> from a text file, the original order is the order of the card IDs.
>>
>> What threw me originally is that some cards don't sort in the order I 
>> expect. A category that starts with B is sorted before a category 
>> that starts with A. I assume the categories retain their original 
>> order when they collect matching cards. A few cards with blank 
>> categories sort to the front (good) but when sorted by title they 
>> remain at the front even though the titles all start with "The". 
>> That's okay because they are summary cards that should be at the 
>> front, but I'm not sure why they stay there during an alphabetical 
>> title sort instead of moving to the Ts. I didn't find any leading 
>> spaces or invisible characters.
>>
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