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efantini Fields order in Custom Object
Folks,
looking at the properties of object "field" i do not see any reference to a tab/position , that, i can eventualy use to order the colums of a custom object.
The simplest way i though, was to assign a sequential name to the field ( ex ob1_axxx__C, ob1_bxxx__C ... ) , but, although the wsdl displays the fields list in the correct order, this order is not respected in the custom object visualization.
Any hint?
Thanks
sure they don't, that's why we use s-controls to fill-in and display them, i though.
For instance, It is very much possible that in some cases you need to define a specific colums display order ( eg. Price, QTY,Discount, Price Tot ... ) . In order to fullfill this requirements, we named each field considering its position ( eg. price.name = aprice, QTY.name = bQTY, discount.name = cdiscount ... ).
Unfortunately, s-controls do not care about this idea. Thus, we implemented a basic Sort function in the javascript :
function AQuickSort(l,r)
{
var i;
var j;
var bVerso;
var strTemp;
i = l;
j = r;
bVerso = true;
while(i
{
if(this.fieldArray[i].name > this.fieldArray[j].name)
{
strTemp = this.fieldArray[i];
this.fieldArray[i] = this.fieldArray[j];
this.fieldArray[j] = strTemp;
bVerso = !bVerso
}
if (bVerso)
i++;
else
j--;
}
if (l
this.QuickSort(l, i - 1);
if (j
this.QuickSort(j + 1, r);
}
In the entity object definition we define the sort function:
CEntity.prototype.QuickSort=AQuickSort;
In function AdescribeFinished(responseXML) we call the Sort function:
if (this.entityType == top.customObjectName)
this.QuickSort(1,this.fieldArray.length-1);
Hi efantini,
You could maintain your layout in a custom object. In this way you could put whatever layout metadata you require into that table for each field and use it in conjuction with the field object.