[mapguide-users] field display order...

[Andrew DeMerchant]

Just as a note here, I'm using the DWF viewer, not AJAX....I looked in 
the dwfmappane.templ file for anything remotely close to somthing that 
sorted the legend, and saw nothing. Found the line that you mentioned in 
the ajax one, but no such thing in the dwf one. That's likely why the 
spaces thing didn't work for me either...my legend isn't even being 
parsed as html, i'd imagine. Anyway, thanks for the suggestions! I'll 
hae to either live with what I've got, or number the fields.

Andrew DeMerchant wrote:

> That "space" trick is pretty smart....but the spaces aren't collapsing 
> for me for some reason....I may just take out that line that you 
> suggest, since I think that my fields will be in a nice order without 
> being sorted.
>
> James Card wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:01:49 -0700, Andrew DeMerchant  
>> <andrew.demerchant at gemtec.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone know of a way to change the field display order for a 
>>> layer?
>>> I want to chaneg the order of the fields that show up when you select a
>>> feature on a layer...is that even possible? I'm using Studio, and
>>> haven't found any way yet....
>>
>>
>> I did this on one of our servers a while back. As I recall it only  
>> required that I comment out this statement  
>> "properties.sort(CompareProperties);" at line 2294 in 
>> ajaxmappane.templ.  Then the properties are displayed in the same 
>> order they appear in the  underlying datasource.
>>
>> The other thing I've done is add leading SPACE charcters to the 
>> display  name for the field in the Layer setup. Since HTML collapses 
>> multiple  spaces into a single space this allows me to specify 
>> exactly which order  they sort in.
>>
>> It would be wonder to have and ORDER BY clause available.
>>
>
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-- 
	*Andrew DeMerchant*
*Computer Technologist*
ph.1-877-4GEMTEC x.163
fax 506-453-9470

/GEMTEC Limited <http://www.gemtec.ca>
/191 Doak Road
Fredericton, NB, Canada
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