That did it. Thanks Joe!

Brooks  



Joe D'Souza wrote:
> 
> Brooks,
> 
> Try creating a VARCHAR2 field of length less than 15 but greater than 5.
> Use
> this field to map it to the Request ID, and left pad it with 0's so that
> it
> will sort the way it sorts in ARS regular forms.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Joe D'Souza
> 
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> Subject: Create view form from SQL Server dblink
> 
> 
> Good afternoon listers-
> On ARSystem 7.0 SQL Server 2005, i've created a dblink to another SQL
> Server
> 2000 table. I've successfully created a view form off of this database
> link
> and used the ROW_ID field as the key field for the new view form. The
> problem I'm running into is that this key field is an integer datatype so
> when I sort by this field in the form, it sorts like this:
> 10
> 1003
> 1011
> 102
> 1038
> 104
> 
> How can I get this corrected? I know I'll probably need to recreate this
> database view and change the key field datatype, but I tried VARCHAR, but
> then cannot use this field as the key field when trying to create the view
> form in Remedy.
> 
> Thanks
> Brooks
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