We have a client using Contour to build relatively lengthy forms to allow people to register for Conferences.
They've asked whether the results shown in the "Form Entries" list (and in the downloaded results) can be displayed in the same order as they were created in the original form.
Confirmation workflow emails show the fields in form order, but in the Entries list and downloaded files the fields are re-ordered into alphabetical order.
Does anyone know a way of maintaing the sort order?
They want to use the Excel download option to export and manage registrations and this makes it very difficult.
All records have a timestamp so if you use the export dialog (only button in the toolbar) you can export to excell and then order them how you want, think by default that should be ordered by create date
Thanks Tim - Just to clarify though the request from the client is to have the order of the fields in each completed form record maintained in question order (not reordered alphabetically), not the records themselves.
Ok in that case you can update the xslt that is used for transforming the records in the export output, that's located in /umbraco/plugins/umbracocontour/xslt/excell.xslt
Ordering form entry results in Contour
Hi there,
We have a client using Contour to build relatively lengthy forms to allow people to register for Conferences.
They've asked whether the results shown in the "Form Entries" list (and in the downloaded results) can be displayed in the same order as they were created in the original form.
Confirmation workflow emails show the fields in form order, but in the Entries list and downloaded files the fields are re-ordered into alphabetical order.
Does anyone know a way of maintaing the sort order?
They want to use the Excel download option to export and manage registrations and this makes it very difficult.
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Hi Chris,
All records have a timestamp so if you use the export dialog (only button in the toolbar) you can export to excell and then order them how you want, think by default that should be ordered by create date
Thanks Tim - Just to clarify though the request from the client is to have the order of the fields in each completed form record maintained in question order (not reordered alphabetically), not the records themselves.
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Ok in that case you can update the xslt that is used for transforming the records in the export output, that's located in /umbraco/plugins/umbracocontour/xslt/excell.xslt
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