[ic] Re: Overhaul Admin UI

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Stefan Hornburg (Racke) (racke at linuxia.de):
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:50:01 -0500
> Joshua Lavin <joshua at kingdomdesign.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Aug 18, 2005, at 11:20 AM, Bob Puff wrote:
> > 
> > > I have to tell my clients never to click on the shipping admin  
> > > stuff, because
> > > every time they do, IC ends up screwing up the shipping.asc file.   
> > > I really
> > > wish it wouldn't do that.  I almost think it messes up the file  
> > > without the
> > > user even changing anything and clicking submit.  That's a  
> > > dangerous UI!
> > 
> > While we're at it... the variable.txt file gets unsorted when  
> > Preferences are viewed in the UI.
> 
> That can easily be fixed by specifying a sort order in catalog.cfg
> and makes sense, especially if you are using version control for
> your IC projects.

It shouldn't get unsorted when they are *viewed*, just when they
are changed.

And as Stefan says:

    Database variable EXPORT_SORT code

will make the export routine sort upon export.

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Mike Heins
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