• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 20

Description:
Is it possible to use the SYS field in tab_sort to sort by system number?

Our library does not have a 001 or any other field with system number, but we want to sort records in GUI brief view by system number.

Resolution:
Add a line like this to the abc01 tab_sort:

08 11 SYS ...

Add to ./abc01/tab_expand:

SORT-DOC expand_doc_sysno

(This is creating a virtual field called SYS for sort purposes.)

Update few records with UTIL F 1 13. You can now see that the system is creating z101 records with sort key 08:

01 z101_sort \
02 z101_rec_key \
03 doc_number ...000000601
03 sort_key .....08
02 z101_data \
03 alpha ........L
03 text .........000000601

Note: you will need to execute p_manage_27 to rebuild Z101.

• Article last edited: 10/8/2013