Tagged Values order

[Guillaume]

Hi,

I tried to find a thread on this topic as I have a feeling it's been discussed before: is there a way to change the order of Tagged Values that have manually been created on a Class or an Attribute?
I cannot find any position property in the DB e.g. within t_attributetag or t_objectproperties

EA seems to display them in the order according to their creation date/time

Any hint?

[Geert Bellekens]

Hi Guillaume,

I don't know of a way to influence the order of tagged values.

Geert

[qwerty]

I have the impression that they are always sorted alphabetically. There is that A-Z button (which I never have used until now). That just seems to be a combination-switch with the compartment button left of it. When you enter new TVs they appear always sorted alphabetically within the existing TVs.

q.

[Guillaume]

I found that EA sorts Tagged Values according to the PropertyID value which is read-only (via the API or a SQL UPDATE). It explains why TV are listed on the created order.
Hence it looks like we need an enhancement in EA from Sparx to achieve this.

A script could attempt to create tagged value clones with the requested order and delete the old ones but that doesn't sound right.

[Paolo F Cantoni]

I found that EA sorts Tagged Values according to the PropertyID value which is read-only (via the API or a SQL UPDATE). It explains why TV are listed on the created order.
Hence it looks like we need an enhancement in EA from Sparx to achieve this.

A script could attempt to create tagged value clones with the requested order and delete the old ones but that doesn't sound right.

It may not sound right, but (effectively) it's what you'll have to do.

We have an automatic QuickLinker Generator and since the QuickLinker lists the relationships in the order it encounters them in the list (for relationships between existing elements), we had to order the list according to our needs.

If you don't want to create new TVs, you could overwrite the existing ones to get them in the right order.

Paolo