Sorting Groups Chronologically

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Shane

Currently, when you take a schedule and group it based on some field, the
groups are in alphabetical order. Is there a way to set it so that the groups
list in order of the start date instead, or chronological order?

Thx
 
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Dale Howard [MVP]

Shane --

When you create the Group, the sort order is either Ascending or Descending
on that Group. Hope this helps.
 
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Shane

Actually, Dale, that's not quite what I was asking. For example: let's say I
have three events coming up. Six departments are all participating in these
events, so they each have tasks in their schedules reflecting their
responsibilities for each of the three events. The event is identified by an
enterprise field. I create a consolidated schedule with all six schedules. I
create a grouping on the entire consolidated schedule using that enterprise
field. The groupings are sorted in alphaabetical order, either ascending or
descending order. Also, each group has a start date based on the earliest
start date of all the tasks found in that group and a finish date based on
the latest finish date of all the tasks found in that group.

Those who view the consolidated schedule want to see the groupings so that
they can see who's playing in each event. However, they want to see the event
that will happen first, first, the second event to show second, etc. To do
this, we need to group on the enterprise field, but sort on the start date of
each group. In our case, we're talking about 25+ events and over 50 schedules.

Can this be done?
- Shane
 
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Dale Howard [MVP]

Shane --

Make your custom Group a 2-level grouping, by the Start field and then your
custom fied. That's probably the best you can do. Hope this helps.
 

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