Hi Andrew (and James) I tried this and couldn't get the change to show up in my web layout. In fact nothing that I did to the property pane seemed to persist through to the layout, so clearly something is going wrong that needs more investigation.
Kenneth- I will need to track down exactly what's happening before I can report this as any kind of coherent bug- at the moment my observations would be quite woolly and useless, but I'll see what I can do. Thanks all Jo Andrew DeMerchant wrote: > > Here's a post from James Card to this group from 2006 that's got a > workaround: > > "The other thing I've done is add leading SPACE charcters to the display > name for the field in the Layer setup. Since HTML collapses multiple > spaces into a single space this allows me to specify exactly which order > they sort in. " > > Andrew > > > > On 8/14/2009 11:33 AM, Dave Wilson wrote: >> >> As far as the AJAX Viewer is concerned the order will still be >> alphabetical as far as I know. Realistically an enhancement that lets >> the user drag the fields in the layer editor into an order should >> actually build the query options with the properties in that order. >> When they are read from the query the order should stay the same. >> >> That's probably and RFC. >> >> Dave >> >> *From:* mapguide-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org >> [mailto:mapguide-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Kenneth >> Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S >> *Sent:* Friday, August 14, 2009 7:12 AM >> *To:* MapGuide Users Mail List >> *Subject:* Re: [mapguide-users] Change order of fields displayed in >> properties pane? >> >> The preview release, since two or three preview releases ago. >> >> I don't think the join stuff can influence the order. >> >> If you still get unsaved stuff in the preview, be sure to report it, >> so I can fix it before the next major release. >> >> Regards, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S >> >> >> >> Jo Cook skrev: >> >> It does? Which version? I am currently using the stable version, which is >> playing hell with the properties- if I change the display name (and save) >> it >> sets it back on reload, and none of my changes seem to persist to the >> viewer. Come to think of it, I'm using a joined layer. Is this likely to >> be >> compounding the issue? >> >> Thanks >> >> Jo >> >> Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S wrote: >> >> >> Maestro supports ordering of the properties, but perhaps the viewer >> >> sorts them afterwards. >> >> >> >> Regards, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> James Card skrev: >> >> >> >> On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:50:21 -0700, Jo >> Cook<j.c...@oxfordarch.co.uk> <mailto:j.c...@oxfordarch.co.uk> >> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> Is it possible to specify the order in which fields are >> displayed in >> >> the properties pane? Currently it seems to display them in >> >> alphabetical order, rather than the order in which they >> appear in the >> >> data source. The only way I can think of getting round it at >> the >> >> moment is to number all of the properties, which will look a >> bit >> >> strange... >> >> >> >> I don't know of any way to specify the sort order. The workaround >> we >> >> use, rather than numbering the property names, is to insert >> leading >> >> spaces in the property names. This causes them to be sorted >> according >> >> to number of leading spaces, but since HTML collapses whitespace >> to a >> >> single space the display still looks looks good. >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> mapguide-users mailing list >> >> mapguide-users@lists.osgeo.org >> <mailto:mapguide-users@lists.osgeo.org> >> >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mapguide-users mailing list >> mapguide-users@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users >> > > -- > *Andrew DeMerchant* > *Computer Technologist* > ph.1-877-2GEMTEC x.163 > fax 506-453-9470 > > /GEMTEC Limited <http://www.gemtec.ca> > /191 Doak Road > Fredericton, NB, Canada > E3C 2E6 > > > > This e-mail message (including attachments, if any) is confidential and > may be privileged. 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