• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 21

Desired Outcome Goal:
Numbers are sorted alphabetical in heading lists but should be sorted numerical. How to setup?

Example from AUT heading list:
Mann, Thomas Werke 1
Mann, Thomas Werke 11
Mann, Thomas Werke 2

Procedure:
By default numbers are sorted alphabetically (1, 11, 2) and not numerically (1, 2, 11). For changing the sorting add "expand_num" to according filing routine in xxx01/tab/tab_filing which expands any number to 9 digits. For the above example this would mean that the numbers would internally be saved as
000000001
000000002
000000011

However the display of the numbers in GUI would not change, meaning that there would not appear "000000002" instead of "2".

Excerpt from tab_filing header:
! - expand_num: expand number (add leading zeroes to fill numbers
! to a certain number of digits - specified as a parameter -
! for numeric filing).
... and ...
! - When using both "numbers" and "expand_num" in the same section,
! "numbers" must precede "expand_num"