On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 22:54 -0400, Mathew Snyder wrote: > Running v3.6. We have a custom field with close to 100 items in it. > They are all listed alphabetically so whenever a new item needs to be > added, it gets added in the middle. This requires a complete reordering > of the sort field for the entire list. > > For instance suppose we have item 1 and 2 already in the list. We add > item 3 between 1 and 2 and make it 2. When we save the changes we now > have two items labeled 2 and have to manually reorder them all the way > down to the bottom. Tedious at best, obnoxious at worst.
The sort order numbers do not have to be sequential. Try setting the sort order to a different stepping, such as 5, 10, 15, 20, etc. Then you can easily insert new records in between. HTH -- Joshua Colson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> VoidGate InterNetworks _______________________________________________ http://lists.bestpractical.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rt-users Community help: http://wiki.bestpractical.com Commercial support: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Discover RT's hidden secrets with RT Essentials from O'Reilly Media. Buy a copy at http://rtbook.bestpractical.com
