Choosing How Columns Sort Data

Horizon lets you sort data in a list window using any of the displayed columns. (For example, you can sort a list of book titles by their publication dates.)

You can choose how Horizon sorts columns in list windows by default. You do this by assigning a sort processor to columns that you want to sort in a list window. Sort processors use specific filing rules to sort data. (Horizon also uses processors as it indexes data for searching and displaying information.) Note that not all columns in a list window use sort processors. This is because you do not need to sort some column data, such as phone numbers, by specific criteria.

Because columns in list windows use sort processors to sort data, you can choose to sort columns in list windows in Horizon in the same way that you sort search results. (For example, if you want to sort titles in your PO Line list window alphabetically, you can choose to use the same processor that your alphabetic browse index uses.) The more familiar you are with the processors that your search indexes use, the more you will be able to “mirror” that sorting behavior in your list windows.

By default, Horizon sets the sort processor for each column in a list window in the Horizon system. You can choose to change the sort processor that each column in a list window uses.

You follow this process when you choose how columns sort data:

1. Decide which list window you want to change the sorting for.
2. Find the correct view definition for the window.
3. Find the correct column to sort.
4. Choose the sort processor for the column.

To choose how a column sorts data

1 Open the view for the list window that you want to change the sorting for.

(For instructions on opening the correct view, see Finding and Opening the Correct View.)

2 Click Page Down or resize the window to display the List View group.
3 Choose the column that you want to change the sorting for from the List View drop-down list.

Horizon displays the group entry for the chosen column:

4 In the Sort Processor field, enter or choose the code for a sort processor.
5 Save your changes.

 


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