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= Overview =

The order in which outcomes appear in reports, on screen and throughout bxp is a consideration for new forms and long standing forms. There are two general approaches.

= Numeric Order =

The numeric order function allows you to put a number beside the outcome from 1 to 100. Where the system has two outcomes of the same number it will alphabetically order the outcomes.

Setting the order is done from ''Main Menu > Form Management > Form - Outcome Manager > Outcome - Add or Outcome - Edit > Choose your form > Choose your outcome > Advanced Options > Order''

= Alphabetic Order =

However when data leaves bxp or needs to be able to be sorted where the Order capability is not readily available then alphabetic sorting is preferable.

Imagine two outcomes
* Callback
* Not Interested
* Sale

We want to have Sale as the first outcome, but alphabetically that can't happen. S is after C. Instead we simply prepend some numbers to the start of the outcome.

* 3 - Callback
* 1 - Sale

Now they will go into the order we want. A further challenge is if you have more than 10 outcomes. As this is a piece of text and not a number, the sorting will go as follows.

* 1 - Sale
* 10 - Demo outcome
* 11 - Demo outcome
* 12 - Demo outcome
* 2 - Not Interested
* 3 - Callback

To combat this we simply add zeros to the numbers. Quite often in bxp we add 000 as the basic format before an outcome to facilitate ordering.

* 001 - Sale
* 002 - Not Interested
* 003 - Callback
* 010 - Demo outcome
* 011 - Demo outcome
* 012 - Demo outcome

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Philip Lacey: Created page with "= Overview = The order in which outcomes appear in reports, on screen and throughout bxp is a consideration for new forms and long standing forms. There are two general ap..."