From the course: FileMaker Pro Essential Training (2019)
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Sorting with multiple criteria - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: FileMaker Pro Essential Training (2019)
Sorting with multiple criteria
- [Instructor] Often, when you're working with FileMaker and you have a large set of records, you may want to look at them in a certain order. This, of course, is where sorting comes into play, and sometimes when you're sorting, you might have multiple different criteria that you need to sort with. Say, for example, we've got this database with 1523 records in it, and I sort them all by state in descending order and if we scroll all the way to the beginning, we'll see that all the A's, whatever state that is, all the way down to Wyoming at the end. So let's say, however though, that within each sort group, so that means within all the AA's, I would like to sort another value, let's call it city. It's pretty simple to do. All you do is you keep your primary sort on the top of the sort order, and I'm going to double-click on another value, city, which means that sort all of the records in the found set, this happens to be all the records, 1523 of them, sort them all by state…
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