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Sorting attributes of PLM

Posted on Jul 30, 2007 at 07:45 PM 15 Views

I have a Product Line Master containing parts with size attributes (S,M,L) but the size dropdown is appearing alphabetically (L, M, S). Is there a way of sorting the attributes so they appear as (S, M, L)?

Steve

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    Posted on Jul 30, 2007 at 08:14 PM
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    Hi Steve,

    Are you talking about the attribute picker or the prod line drop block?

    Either way, I believe the answer is no.

    The attribute picker has no sort and the prod line drop block "ORDER BY PartNo".

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    Posted on Nov 29, 2007 at 12:57 AM
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    I had this issue using the attribute matrix. An attribute can have multiple dimensions. To sort the matrix I used the first dimension for sorting and the second dimension for the size. This may also work for the drop down list.

    Eg.

    Dim1, Dim2

    1, S

    2, M

    3, L

    4, XL

    You then change the display options to not show dim1. A user will then sell the attribute matrix sorted.

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      Nov 30, 2007 at 03:59 PM

      Nice suggestion Thomas ... I tried it and if I display the first dimension the items are sorted correctly (but the sort shows up). If I uncheck the display checkbox then they do not sort correctly anymore. I could display the sort doimension and then use javascript possibly to strip off the unwanted text in the beginning though.

      I did a completely different workaround to fix my issue but if I had used the 2 dimensions for sorting it probably would have made my code simpler.

      Steve

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    Posted on Jul 30, 2007 at 08:22 PM
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    I am facing the same problem.

    As it doesnt seem to be possible with backends means, wouldnt it be possible, to do an kind of ajax-body-onload request ?

    I mean iterate on onload over the options of the selcect field containing the size options and re-sort them ?

    Should be possible I guess.

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      Jul 30, 2007 at 08:28 PM

      I'm not very familiar with ajax but I guess I could just have a javascript call on the body onload that reordered the items in the dropdown list, otherwise I would just write a user control to re-order them. It's just specific to sizes since other attributes like color can be ordered alphabetically.

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