Hello,
We want to implement the below functionality. We have docs shown in a view in 3 categories. The first category is hidden. From second category onwards we want to display numbering in each row of the view as below
Row 1 ---- 1
Row 2 ---- 1.1
Row 3 ---- 1.1.1
Row 4 ---- 1.1.2
row n ---- 2
and so on.
However as we have the first column categorized and hidden the numbering in view starts with 1.1 instead of 1
Is there a way to do this?
Subject: Numbering in a view
Not without storing (and updating, if required) the numbers in the documents. More problems will arise, if a document is shown in multiple documents.
While you can retrieve the number a document has in a view, you cannot use string operations to alter this text, as it is considered “special text”.
Subject: RE: Numbering in a view
“Special text”, by the way, means that the value doesn’t actually exist when the column formulas are run. A placeholder is put in place until the view index is updated, then the doc numbers are painted into the placeholders.
Subject: RE: Numbering in a view
Which in turn means, that the desired behavior could be reached in a web application, using JavaScript. The HTML sent to the client is always just plain text and JS (running in the web client) could manipulate it in any required way.
But for the Notes client it’s a no-go.