TABLES-CAN THEY BE SORTED?

Information gleemed off of blocks are transferd as is based on the configuration of the blocks attributes. Thus one may have several differently configured block and as a result the column names are different. I do not think yu would want to sort the columns in another order, since you may be adding block attibutes which if configured differently will not represent the data.

Sincerely

gonzal13(joe)

hey joe,
I'm talking about the new table object (since Autocad 2005 I think) that is created with the _table command using setup table styles. Its alot like excel except for the sort feature. It'd just be nice to sort on the fly like in excel.  It'd be nice to be able to sort sheets in a sheet set too, sometimes when I have to find things all I have is a dwg name, not a number. There may be a way to do these things I just havent found it yet.
Thanks tho

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But...Norrin... *looks at ranking*... Aren't -YOU- supposed to help -US-, not the other way around !? j/k ;o)

This is not something i used yet, ill check out what these tables are about, to see if i can grasp something to help you :o)

hey mr. featured expert ;) we all need a little help now and again, and I need all the help I can get! I get alot from this site too!
Thanks for looking into it, I think you will like tables once you get into them really handy.

hey techn, what do you think about tables? you been able to check em out yet?

hey thanks for looking into it. but I think we are talking about 2 different kinds of tables, I ran into some confusion about that too. The tables I'm talking about are created using the "table" command and as far as I know they dont have anything to do with the database type tables. That seems a little confusing when you go to look in the help files for tables.
The table I'm trying to sort is a sheet list table created out of the sheet set manager. I also use them for notes.
I dont think they can be sorted, but I had to ask to make sure.
Thanks again.

Hehehe, understand that im coming from far here. I 'm talking about those tables, from Tools>Tables. I guess i was going too far in my search for any 'sort' feature and ended up in the section for linking database to the table ...which could or could not be related hehehe

I simply never used it, so i dont really have the pretention to be able to fix the issue ya know ;o) But i plan on getting this understood since im well started now :o) If i ever found something interesting ill try to let you know.

hey no problem. I think I know the answer is going to be you just cant sort em yet. You dont have to spend any time on it if you dont want too. I'll probably just ask for this to be deleted in a few more days. thanks for taking the time though

the answer is no they cant be sorted yet like I'm asking. so tech you get the points for trying and i think you would have come up with the same answer after much time.
maybe they'll have that feature in a new release.
thanks.

Thanks Norrin