Categorized views and sort order in preferences

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For: Eric Spencer (follow up on discussion in developer lab at LotusPhere last month)

I have developed additional functionality to the mail template. This results in some categoriezed views based on the “($All)” view (i.e. same columns just with a category column first).

Now, initially it did not seem to work since the categories were not shown. At LotusPhere I tried this with the developers - and it worked!! Amazing - and a embarassing :wink:

Now I have found the reason. In my development environment I have at some stage selected to sort the mails in descending order in the Preferences of iNotes (under Mail - Display). This selection will do a sort on the “Date” column - and in a categorized view this will effectively show the view without the categories… - aha!

So my question is how can I modify the template to avoid having sorted my categorized views? - it is Ok that the other views get sorted based on the preferences

Thank you!

John

UPDATE:

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I did some further testing and experimenting and this is what I found:

  • Moving the Date column still makes it sort

  • Changing the column heading (to “xDate”) still makes it sort

  • Inserting a new date column still only sorts the original Date column

  • Creating a new column with same attributes still makes original Date column sort

  • Removing the original Date column and leaving the new column with same attributes seem to work (i.e. Date is now not sorted)

This still does not explain why, and there may be a more reliable way to control it :wink:

John

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Subject: Do your changes affect Notes Client as well?

When you say that the view gets sorted when you do different things like moving the Date column. Does that sorting appear in the Notes client? Or just in DWA?

I believe that the normal behavior of views – in both the Notes client and DWA – is that when you sort by a particular column, you lose the categorization.