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    Report Order Expression Ignored

    I have a set where the parent and all children all have the primary index set as "invoice number". I have three reports based on this set that I have designed to order by DATE, ascending (in the Report:Detail Properties). The report still orders by invoice number. What am I overlooking?
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    RE: Report Order Expression Ignored

    Why are you using a field named 'DATE' in the first place?

    Remember, Date() is a function. The use of function names for names of fields and objects on your forms is not recommended. It may be that Alpha Five is interpreting your order expression such that it's trying to order your records based on the current system date. The first thing I'd do is restructure the table to change the name of that field.

    -- tom

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      RE: Report Order Expression Ignored

      Well, perhaps. I actually have two fields: "Date" (date of sale) and "Datepd" (date paid). I have 2 reports ordered on "Date" and one on "Datepd" and all 3 still order on the primary index. I'll try changing the name of the "Date" field, but I have my doubts that it will make any difference since "Datepd" doesn't work either.

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        RE: Report Order Expression Ignored

        what you are overlooking is that the detail section is ordered
        by date, but the groups are not. within each group, the
        detail records are by date, but if your report is based
        on the set and the set is by invoice, then the report
        is in invoice order.

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          RE: Report Order Expression Ignored

          Becky, is the date field in the parent table of the set, or in the child table ? If it's the former then leave the links as they are, but re-order the parent table, using an index by date, and remove the ordering expression from the report layout... use currently selected records instead.

          If it's the latter you may need to invert the set, and then impose an index order by date.

          The foregoing assumes there are no groups in your report.

          In some cases you might want to have the report grouped on invoice number, and then within each group have the details from the child table sorted by date. One easy way to do this is to modify the set linkage expression, so that it becomes

          invoice_number + cdate(childtable->datefield)

          instead of just

          invoice_number


          Hope this helps.

          -- tom

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