Thanks. I've adopted/adapted the previous idea and it worked well so I'm going to stick with it. But will keep your suggestion for future reference -- never can tell when these things will come in handy! Thanks.
... Ron ______________________________________________ *** From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *** Dated: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 02:07:08 EDT Hi Ron I found this synchronized list sorting handler in the Scripter's Scrapbook. It may need a bit of tweaking for rev, but may give you some ideas... local lKeyData, lLineCounter on sortBy keyField -- parallel sorting of linked flds put fld keyField into lKeyData put "data1,data2,data3" into dataFields -- fill in your fld names here repeat with i = 1 to the number of items of dataFields put 0 into lLineCounter -- must be reset prior to each sort sort lines of fld (item i of dataFields) by key() end repeat end sortBy function key add 1 to lLineCounter return line lLineCounter of lKeyData end key Based on an old HyperCard script by Brett Sher. HTH /H ----- I have a field containing several items including one for month/year pairs such as: Oct 2005 Apr 2005 Feb 2004 Jan 2006 Apr 2005 Aug 2005 Is there any clever way to get these lines sorted chronologically? What I've been doing so far is generating a real date from them: Oct 1, 2005 Apr 1, 2005 etc. in a hidden item and sorting that. This works but I'm betting there's a way to do a custom sort thingee that works directly from the original values. But so far I've come up with nada. Any clever ideas? ... Ron ----- _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
