Re: [mv] MiniMate Help

["Lee F. Johnson III" <ljohnson@david.stormforge.net>]

******    message to minivend-users from "Lee F. Johnson III" <ljohnson@david.stormforge.net>     ******

I have the same problem with MiniMate and 3.14-03. Not only does it reorder, but it add blank lines which naturally come through as items with no title or price. I have shelved using it until I could revisit it. Perhaps now I should.
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Lee Johnson
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> ******    message to minivend-users from Ed LaFrance <edlafrance@printexusa.com>     ******
> 
> At 10:03 AM 5/4/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >******    message to minivend-users from "Dan E. Jackson III" 
> ><danny@intermallamerica.com>     ******
> >
> >I have a quick question about MiniMate (3.14.03).  Everytime I edit my
> >products.asc file through MM, it rearranges the file in an order I
> >haven't figured out yet.  Before I make any change, the file is arranged
> >alphabetically, after editing, who knows?!  My question is where and how
> >do I reconfigure MM so that it doesn't do this?  I'd hate to think I'd
> >have to go in, grab the file, re-edit it in Excel, re-edit it in
> >TextPad, and then upload it everytime I finish.  Thanks in advance! -
> >dan jackson
> >danny@intermallamerica.com
> 
> It is unlikely that Minimate is rearranging the entire contents of your 
> products file; more likely, it is using an index (such as products.asc.8) 
> to sort the display of the contents for editing.
> 
> In any case, you may want to use some of the sorting functions available 
> for page construction, so that you do not have to rely on the native order 
> of rows in your products file to control the listing order of search 
> results, etc.
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