Congratulations NetTalk

[Keith]

I might have penned yet another request for help but didn't (of course) because the first thing you do before even thinking about approaching this august Forum with a query is that you read and re-read all of the documentation that you can lay hands on. 

Well my problem was simple - I needed to have a Browse sorted on Date AND Time and in typical fashion I started to imagine what I might have to do, might have to code, might have to test in order to get the result.

But then a little voice whispered that maybe, just maybe there might be a template setting - maybe!

A brief look at 'The Book' was all that was required to confirm the existence of a 'Custom Sort Order, a 'Default Sort Order' and a 'Default to Descending (order)' which when appropriately ticked and completed generated the most versatile and accurate set of sorting options that it would be possible to imagine.  No doing, no coding and no testing.

This is what makes programming, and especially programming with NetTalk - fun.  Thanks NetTalk and have a great 2015.

Keith

[Bruce]

Hi Keith,

yeah there's a lot in there, and it can be easy to dream up a complicated solution to a solved problem. That's why it's _never_ a bad idea to ask first if you're not sure (or even if you are sure). The worst-case answer is "you're right, that'll take some work" in which case you're no worse off, but in many cases there is a simpler way.

Indeed I find that much of the work when upgrading from an older nettalk to a newer one is removing a bunch of hand-code that's now better served by the template. This was most apparent when going from NT4 to NT5, but it's more or less true for all the releases. And removing code is _painful_

Wishing you all the best for 2015.

cheers
Bruce