I’m trying to figure out a way to give a specific order for selected references in the multi-reference field for a dataset. (e.g. to select people in a specific order of contribution for a project data)
However, currently, the multi-referencing field is only capable of selecting the references but not ordering.
Can anyone help to resolve this?
I create a field called ORDER with a numerical value. When adding the Content Dataset for the incoming dataset, be sure to add a sorting and select ORDER either ascending or descending.
Thank you for your answer.
In my case, different Project Data set needs to be associated with Different People in different orders.
In my case, where shall I set this ORDER? Shall Project Data set have a column of ORDER next to PEOPLE (multi-reference field), where the two are somehow linked to define the order?
So not necessarily listed by order but by group? Perhaps assign the repeater to the People, and then associate the project data after that within each item to the person? Not sure until I see what you have going on.
@teejay I’m trying to list project members on each project page, and there are specific orders which I want to display depending on the projects.
I use the repeater on the project page to list the project members, but I don’t know how to list them in a specific order which should be specific to each project.
Hope my description makes sense. Thank you!
So PROJECT A has PERSON 23, PERSON 2, PERSON 15 listed in that order, but PROJECT B has PERSON 18, PERSON 1, PERSON 23 listed in that order?
exactly! that is what I hope to define in each PROJECT Data Set, and display in the PROJECT pages.
Let me think about this one over night.
@knakagaki So, what is the criteria that establishes the order of the person that are involved in the project?
@teejay I hope to manually set / define in each
data set. It is pretty much about defining the authors’ orders for academic paper/projects.
@knakagaki I suppose you could create several ordering fields based on various criteria. For example, 1-column in the authors’ db is place value and emphasis on number of papers submitted, another for the number of students they have, and or the number of years they have been at it.
Then on the page that has a particular project you add a number of sorts that touch on all the of the ordering fields you have set up.
Not being able to see actuals, makes me assume, but I hope this helps.