http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/13.aspxAsk technical support questions, how do I? Questions... Or anything else you want to know from the Method Team and other Method users.enCommunityServer 2007.1 SP2 (Build: 31113.47)http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/25075.aspxMon, 05 Jan 2015 18:48:15 GMT3393c1ec-311b-4812-96cb-ad8c611bba4f:25075Method_Justin0http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/25075.aspxhttp://forums.method.me/cs/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&PostID=25075<p><span id="mce_0_start" style="overflow:hidden;"><span id="mce_1_start" style="overflow:hidden;">Hi thesolarguys,</span></span></p> <p>The only way to sort a dropdown <span id="mce_3_start" style="overflow:hidden;">is</span>&nbsp;to <span id="mce_4_start" style="overflow:hidden;"></span>m<span id="mce_4_end" style="overflow:hidden;"></span>ake <span id="mce_5_start" style="overflow:hidden;">the</span>&nbsp;sorting field the first column of the&nbsp;<span id="mce_2_start" style="overflow:hidden;">dropdown.&nbsp;There unfortunately isn&#39;t a way to&nbsp;<span id="mce_6_start" style="overflow:hidden;"><span id="mce_8_start" style="overflow:hidden;">sort it by secondary fields, or a way to force a sort.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="overflow:hidden;"><span style="overflow:hidden;"><span style="overflow:hidden;">- Justin</span></span></span></p>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/25074.aspxMon, 05 Jan 2015 17:43:33 GMT3393c1ec-311b-4812-96cb-ad8c611bba4f:25074thesolarguys0http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/25074.aspxhttp://forums.method.me/cs/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&PostID=25074<p><span id="mce_0_start" style="overflow:hidden;"><span id="mce_19_start" style="overflow:hidden;"></span>Is there a way to sort a dropdown field in a grid. For instance on the AddEdi<span id="mce_5_start" style="overflow:hidden;"></span>tW<span id="mce_4_start" style="overflow:hidden;"></span>orkOrder page&nbsp;<span id="mce_3_start" style="overflow:hidden;"></span><span id="mce_2_start" style="overflow:hidden;">there is a<span id="mce_6_start" style="overflow:hidden;"></span> dropdown field as Job Item<span id="mce_8_start" style="overflow:hidden;"> on the work order</span>.<span id="mce_7_start" style="overflow:hidden;"> Right now it sor<span id="mce_9_start" style="overflow:hidden;"></span>ts by&nbsp;<span id="mce_10_start" style="overflow:hidden;">the first column which is the product names. I created a new field&nbsp;<span id="mce_11_start" style="overflow:hidden;">in the table called ItemOrder which I label each item with an letter of the alpha bet to display in the oder I would like. However, unless I put that field in the dropdown in the first column I can&#39;t get<span id="mce_12_start" style="overflow:hidden;"></span> it to sort by<span id="mce_16_start" style="overflow:hidden;"></span> it which I want the product name to be in the first column.<span id="mce_18_start" style="overflow:hidden;"><span id="mce_19_end" style="overflow:hidden;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>