Ok, I know I'm in over my head on this group, and it has been a LONG
time sense I learned this stuff, and Image may have evolved more than I
was aware sense then, but it was my understanding that each sort item
could only be sorted on one path.  By default, the primary path.  And, I
don't see how it can be sorted on it's own path.  I.E.:  CATALOGUE-NUM
sorted on the CATALOGUE-NUM path.

An example from my past.  We had a set that had paths of id#, ss#, and
receipt#.  The primary, and sorted path was on id# for the search sort
of receipt#.  When read on the id# path the receipt# was sorted, because
the actual path was sorted on this field.  When read on the ss# path,
the receipt# was not sorted.  The only work around for this was that
first they were usually added in order, and seldom out of order anyway,
and second, we could do a physical sort on the receipt# with DBGeneral
if needed.

Is my memory that bad, or my information that old?

bill grefe wrote:
>
> I have an image data set(see below). I would like to have this data returned
> from image sorted by
> Catalogue-number regardless of the search path used to find the data.  The
> programs that use this
> Data set are supplied by a third party and I have no access to them.
> Can I a) add a sort path with adager to catalogue-number (without breaking
> anything) or
>           b) sort the data with adager periodically (I used to do this with
> DBMGR reload along time ago
> but I think they "enhanced" reload so the order of the non sorted search
> paths weren't changed).
>
> SET NAME:
>    BROWSE-DETAIL,DETAIL
>
>       ITEMS:
>          CATALOGUE-NUMBER,     U20           <<SEARCH ITEM>>
>          CLASS,                U6            <<SEARCH ITEM>>
>          SUBCLASS,             U6            <<SEARCH ITEM>>
>          CATEGORY,             U10           <<SEARCH ITEM>>
>          TYPE,                 U4
>
>       CAPACITY: 8320            ENTRIES: 8198
>
> Thanks,
>
> William Grefe
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> PCI-WEDECO Environmental Technologies, Inc.
> phone: 973-575-7052
> fax: 973-575-8941

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