[rt-users] Custom fields sort order

[Brent]

I doubt this is the correct way of doing it but it worked for me as my users
where pestering me about it.
What I did was to create a perl script (my perl is very rusty and very
immature so if anyone can make this better be my guest)
I couldn't figure out how to put the output of a select query into a perl
array so I just created a bash script that called the perl script (nasty!)
 
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#!/bin/bash
 
echo "select Name from CustomFieldValues where CustomField = 5 order by Name
into outfile '/tmp/mysqlselect' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n';"|mysql -Drt3
/home/test/perltest.pl
rm -f /tmp/mysqlselect
-----------
Obviously here you need to find out the value of your CustomField beforehand
and the perl is (I went to perl as I had issues with trying to get the bash
array going properly)
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#!/usr/bin/perl
 
use DBI();
 
  # Connect to the database.
my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:database=rt3;host=localhost",
                       "root", "blah",
                       {'RaiseError' => 1});
 
my $data_file;
$data_file="/tmp/mysqlselect";
open(DAT, $data_file) || die("Could not open file!");
@names=<DAT>;
close(DAT);
 
my $count=0;
foreach $names (@names) {
        chop($names);
        print "UPDATE CustomFieldValues SET SortOrder = $count WHERE Name =
'$names'\;\n ";
        $dbh->do("UPDATE CustomFieldValues SET SortOrder = $count WHERE Name
= '$names'");
        $count++;
}
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I just added this to a cron script to run every night at 12 or something so
any updates will only be visible to the user after that unless you manually
run it each time.
And this has sorted the customfields alphabetically and got my users off my
back for now.
There must be a better way than this but I didn't have the time to look into
it too much (likewise for my select going directly to the array!)
 
Cheers
Brent
 
 
 


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From: rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com
[mailto:rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com] On Behalf Of Brent
Sent: 20 October 2005 18:27
To: rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
Subject: [rt-users] Custom fields sort order


Hi
Is there a way to change the order of custom fields so they can be sorted
alphabetically?
For eg when adding items to a custom field I would like it to automatically
sort the items alphabetically instead of numerically.
 
So items inserted in this order
 
ba
aa
ca
ab
 
get sorted to 
 
aa
ab
ba
ca
 
 
etc etc?

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