RT#7350/7351: Problem with sorting Links.Action / Attachments.Location

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RT#7350/7351: Problem with sorting Links.Action / Attachments.Location

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Hello all,

I noticed that when sorting the "Location in Document" column in the Attachments pane, the sorting is done simply as a string, not as a page number. The same is true for the Action column in the Links pane. Of course the "Action" column could be information other than the page number, but even taking that into account, there might still be room for improvement.

I am afraid to point out very minor details, but I hope that one day it will be possible to sort by page order.

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Thank you so much for your continued support.

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Re: "Location in Document" column in Attachments pane and "Action" column in Links pane are sorted by string, not by pag

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Hello, rakunavi

Thank you for the post, I have passed this along to the Dev team for review, and will let you know when I hear back from them.

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Re: "Location in Document" column in Attachments pane and "Action" column in Links pane are sorted by string, not by pag

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Hello Daniel, thank you for contacting developers.

Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule.
Please give my best regards to developers.

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"Location in Document" column in Attachments pane and "Action" column in Links pane are sorted by string, not by page.

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RT#7350: Problem with sorting Links.Action.
RT#7351: Problem with sorting Attachments.Location

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RT#7350/7351: Problem with sorting Links.Action / Attachments.Location

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Hello Daniel,
thank you again for creating the ticket the other day.

While the issue reported was improved in Build 396, it persists when thousands separators are applied to page counts of 1,000 or more, as shown in the attached image sorting the Links pane in ascending order. The thousands separator (comma or period) is incorrectly treated as a text character for sorting criteria.

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Please give my best regards to developers.

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Re: RT#7350/7351: Problem with sorting Links.Action / Attachments.Location

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Hello, rakunavi

Thank you for the report, We have a new ticket for this issue:
RT#7859: Link sorting - by action breaks on large numbers

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