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

Fri Aug 14 12:25:42 EDT 2009

Hi Andrew (and James)

I tried this and couldn't get the change to show up in my web layout. In
fact nothing that I did to the property pane seemed to persist through to
the layout, so clearly something is going wrong that needs more
investigation.

Kenneth- I will need to track down exactly what's happening before I can
report this as any kind of coherent bug- at the moment my observations would
be quite woolly and useless, but I'll see what I can do.

Thanks all

Jo

Andrew DeMerchant wrote:
> 
> 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.
>>
>>       
>>
>>     Regards, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S
>>
>>       
>>
>>       
>>
>>       
>>
>>     James Card skrev:
>>
>>          
>>
>>         On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:50:21 -0700, Jo
>> Cook<j.cook at oxfordarch.co.uk>  <mailto:j.cook at oxfordarch.co.uk>  
>>
>>         wrote:
>>
>>           
>>
>>                
>>
>>             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...
>>
>>                      
>>
>>         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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