David: Create a virtual dictionary that upper cases the name. Then you sort by the UCNAME but display the normal name. This works for me.
Bill >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David >Wolverton >Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 10:51 AM >To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org >Subject: [U2] [ud] Question on Alpha Sorting... > >I have a need to sort people by LastName,FirstName. > >The issue is that we 'accept' data from lots of sources, some that are >ProperCapped, some that are all lower, AND SOME THAT ARE ALL UPPER. > >I need to 'present' them correctly sorted, but show the data 'as it is' > >The record currently contains a MV list of the names 'as is' -- there could >500 names in the list. > >My way of handing it (now) is to open a New attribute that I put a 'ALL >CAPS' version of the Name into, and then each insert, I so a LOCATE BY 'AL' >into the new attribute, and insert the 'SORTNAME' into the new attribute, >and the 'as TyPed NAme' as always - just now, we're not using the 'as typed' >for the sort. > >My issue ... I've doubled the data being stored in order to accomplish this! >Is there a more elegant, logical way to handle this issue besides having a >'SortName' attribute and an 'AsTyped' attribute in the record? > >Thanks for any thoughts for this Friday afternoon mind-tease! (Ah ... I >miss D3's case insensitivity from time to time!!) > > >David W. ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
