Sort order issue?

[Ken Norcross]

OK, ran across another example today and spent time investigating. Just to see what would happen I flipped the sort order from A-Z and Z-A. The results were not what I expected, and this led me to realize that there are two different stereotypes involved in the elements we are sorting, and the sort is treating it like there are two groups of things to sort.

These are all Activities, with elements that are straight BPMN 2.0 Activities, and then other elements that are a custom MDG stereotype that extends the BPMN 2.0 Activities.

The reporting and sorting is defined at the Activity level in eaDocX, I treat them both the same in the report.

So in the last example we had 7 Activities, 3 plain BPMN and 4 custom MDG Activities.

Activity alias 001, 003, and 006 are plain
Activity alias 002, 004, 005, and 007 are custom

A-Z sort yields 001, 003, 006, 002, 004, 005, 007
Z-A sort yields 006, 003, 001, 007, 005, 004, 002

This is also consistent with the other examples I have run across.

Let me know if you need more detail.

• This reply was modified 10 years, 5 months ago by Ken Norcross.