I'd be happy to look - but my knowledge is entirely LC - never touched
HC, so that may prevent me seeing something relevant.
Suggestions (that you may have tried already :-) :
1. loop through the cards: put the short ID of this card & TAB & field
"title" ... after myVariable
then try sorting the items of myVariable.
That might tell you whether there's something odd in or about the
fields, or whether it's card-specific.
2. Take advantage of the stable sort.
For those cards that shouldn't move, add a specific custom property /
value.
Then, after sorting the way you want the cards, do an additional
sort cards descending by myNewProperty
to move those not-to-be-moved ones to the front, and leave all the
others in their proper order.
Or, feel free to email the stack to me off-list and I'll poke at it.
Alex.
On 01/01/2022 20:10, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
I'm still not having much luck with this. Everything works as expected
except that the first 50 cards or so simply don't move. I can't find
anything different about them that would explain it.
Anyone out there have an inclination to take a look and find what I'm
missing? There's nothing confidential about the stack.
On 12/31/21 12:05 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
Thanks for all the ideas, guys. I seem to get the most consistent
results if I sort by the short ID of each card and then follow that
with the sort for category or title. Because the data was imported
from a text file, the original order is the order of the card IDs.
What threw me originally is that some cards don't sort in the order I
expect. A category that starts with B is sorted before a category
that starts with A. I assume the categories retain their original
order when they collect matching cards. A few cards with blank
categories sort to the front (good) but when sorted by title they
remain at the front even though the titles all start with "The".
That's okay because they are summary cards that should be at the
front, but I'm not sure why they stay there during an alphabetical
title sort instead of moving to the Ts. I didn't find any leading
spaces or invisible characters.
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