Re: Getting sort order from external data window

A bit of clarification. The External Data Window and Visio's data
recordsets are "engine" code, not add-ins.

I can see where knowing the current sort order programmatically would be
useful. Good suggestion.

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Office Graphics - Visio
Microsoft Corporation

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"David Parker" <davidp@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Al,

That isn't the point.
In the UI, you can Arrange By a selected column, and I think Jonathan
wants to get this column in code.
You can reset to the original order in the UI, and this is where the ID is
used.

David

"Al Edlund" <edlund@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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David,
If the recordset is read as xml (I think I sent you the code) you can see
that the records do have record ids in the schema, they're just not made
visible. That's how I use xml to go update a record if the associated
custom property has changed.
Al

"David Parker" <davidp@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I think that you are correct.
We should ask for more properties in the next release....

"J Kallay" <jonathank-nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Does anybody know if there's a way to iterate through the rows of a
DataRecordset in the order shown in the external data window after
sorting on one of the columns? As far as I can tell, Visio only
exposes the sort through the XML schema, not through the API.

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Jonathan Kallay
Visimation Inc.
www.visimation.com
www.shapesource.com






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