[mapguide-users] Change order of fields displayed in properties pane?

[Andrew DeMerchant]

Here's a post from James Card to this group from 2006 that's got a 
workaround:

"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. "

Andrew



On 8/14/2009 11:33 AM, Dave Wilson wrote:
>
> As far as the AJAX Viewer is concerned the order will still be 
> alphabetical as far as I know. Realistically an enhancement that lets 
> the user drag the fields in the layer editor into an order should 
> actually build the query options with the properties in that order. 
> When they are read from the query the order should stay the same.
>
> That's probably and RFC.
>
> Dave
>
> *From:* mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
> [mailto:mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Kenneth 
> Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S
> *Sent:* Friday, August 14, 2009 7:12 AM
> *To:* MapGuide Users Mail List
> *Subject:* Re: [mapguide-users] Change order of fields displayed in 
> properties pane?
>
> The preview release, since two or three preview releases ago.
>
> I don't think the join stuff can influence the order.
>
> If you still get unsaved stuff in the preview, be sure to report it, 
> so I can fix it before the next major release.
>
> Regards, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S
>
>
>
> Jo Cook skrev:
>
> It does? Which version? I am currently using the stable version, which is
> playing hell with the properties- if I change the display name (and save) it
> sets it back on reload, and none of my changes seem to persist to the
> viewer. Come to think of it, I'm using a joined layer. Is this likely to be
> compounding the issue?
>   
> Thanks
>   
> Jo
>   
> Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S wrote:
>    
>
>     Maestro supports ordering of the properties, but perhaps the viewer
>
>     sorts them afterwards.
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>       
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>     Regards, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S
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>     James Card skrev:
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>         On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:50:21 -0700, Jo Cook<j.cook at oxfordarch.co.uk>  <mailto:j.cook at oxfordarch.co.uk>  
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>         wrote:
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>             Is it possible to specify the order in which fields are displayed in
>
>             the properties pane? Currently it seems to display them in
>
>             alphabetical order, rather than the order in which they appear in the
>
>             data source. The only way I can think of getting round it at the
>
>             moment is to number all of the properties, which will look a bit
>
>             strange...
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>         I don't know of any way to specify the sort order. The workaround we
>
>         use, rather than numbering the property names, is to insert leading
>
>         spaces in the property names. This causes them to be sorted according
>
>         to number of leading spaces, but since HTML collapses whitespace to a
>
>         single space the display still looks looks good.
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