Sort a portal row??

[dnowlan]

I must be blind. But I cannot determine how to sort a portal row outside of the preset sort. I want to be able to sort the data in the portal by the field names. Thoughts??

Thanks!!!

[MoonShadow]

Right-click on your portal, dnowlan, and select 'Portal sort'

[dnowlan]

Thank you, however, I missed some important info. i need to automate the sort in the portal by scripts and button clicks and it need to be compatible with the web.

[dnowlan]

Anyone have any insight on this? Very appreciated. Thanks!

[Mathis]

(First post ever - Mwahahaha)

I dont believe FMP gives u any way to directly do this in any easy way... But I have had and solved this problem myself, in the hard way..

I made my portal and sorted it asc by a field called this_is_my_sort_field.

This field contained a calculation that gave it numbers (the current record number or record_count - current record number, read ASC and DESC)

Then i used a global_var to tell my calculation which field i wanted to sort by..

Something like this:

Case(

Menu::Current_Sort = "1"; Get ( RecordNumber );

Menu::Current_Sort = "2"; Menu::Buttons_Count - Get ( RecordNumber );

Menu::Current_Sort = "3"; b_Order;

Menu::Current_Sort = "4"; Menu::Buttons_Count - b_Order;

)

b_Order is the default order setup by the admin (could be anything really)

This was the basic of how one of my mac os x finder alike menu's works.. hope this brings light to your problem? )

- Matte