2009/5/27 Richard S. Russell <[email protected]>:
> What I'd REALLY like is the ability to SHOW only 1 field and SORT on a
> different (hidden) one. I originally encountered the desire to do this when
> I came up with a list of street-type abbreviations and wanted to show only
> the abbreviation but have the dozen most common ones (St., Rd., Dr., Ave.,
> etc.) appear at the top of the list and have their spelled-out versions next
> to them.

We can already specify that a value list is based on a relationship.
It'd be nice if FMI enhanced this by honouring the sort order
specified in the relationship rather than always displaying the value
list in alphabetical order; this would be a simple solution to your
problem. I've just lodged a feature request to that effect.

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