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    cotri is offline Advanced Beginner
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    Setting a field in order for Report

    I have a report that contains a field that is a “Combo Box”. This field has to do with different locations and will always be “Back Warehouse Floor #1; Back Warehouse Floor #2; Back Warehouse Attic; Front Warehouse”. I want the records in the report to first list all the records with ”Back Warehouse Floor #1” in the “Location” field then next list all the records with “Back Warehouse Floor #2” in the “Location” field and so on. The order that I want (of these location names) is not in alphabetic order. Any ideals on how I might do this. Thanks

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    Create a Field that has the sort order you want and display the records in that order.

    eg

    Dogs 1
    Cats 2
    Apples 3

    etc.

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    cotri is offline Advanced Beginner
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rainlover View Post
    Create a Field that has the sort order you want and display the records in that order.

    eg

    Dogs 1
    Cats 2
    Apples 3

    etc.
    Not sure just how that would have worked. I ended up creating another table

    Not sure just how that would have worked. I ended up creating another table assigning each location a “Location ID” number and now can sort from these “ID” numbers. That may have been what you were telling me. Thanks for the help

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