Jon,
To my knowledge, there is no such capability. Presumably that list of SKUs is coming from an Excel spreadsheet (or could be pasted to an Excel spreadsheet). One way you COULD accomplish what you are after would be to at a sequence column to the Excel spreadsheet (with numbers starting at one and incrementing for each row). This sequence column would need to be mapped to an attribute that would be used for sorting. That attribute would need to be in the snapshot table and the User Preference would have the sequence attribute specified in the sort list. Then instead of searching for those items, you would import the SKUs and Sequence numbers with the option to update only set (so non-existent SKUs don't get created). Specify that a Saved Set is to be created. Wait for the import to complete and hen select the UserPreference and the new saved set. The matching records will be presented in the desired order. It's a lot of steps, but the only way to sort results is by an attribute and this would require changing those records to set a sort order. A major down-side of this approach is that you are making a change to the records which will impact delta exports. If you needed the sort performed without altering the SKU records, you'd need to do something even more elaborate, such as import the file into a linked repository whose sole purpose is to sort records based on the desired order but not modify the actual SKU records to do so. But this has its own set of limitations. This sort repository would have to be defined as the child repository in a new link relationship. If you set the primary key to be an auto-sequenced attribute (which would need to be included in the file as an empty column) and the option to create only specified, then each import would create new sort records. With the saved set, you can select the last sort import that was loaded. The UserPreference could then include attributes from the SKU repository but editing the SKU record would require opening the SKU Sort record, then navigating to the SKU record so more hoops to jump through.
Perhaps it would help if you could describe the use-case(s) for which having the ability to sort the records based on the search order.
-Brian
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Brian Zupke | Senior Technical Support Engineer
Winshuttle North America | 9099009179
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Original Message:
Sent: 06-22-2021 17:42
From: Jonathan Varo
Subject: Is There An Option To Sort By The Order of Records Pasted Into Search Window?
If I paste the following SKUs:
2969001576
2965801803
2965801876
2965051503
2966011521
2966855521
2966036592
Is there a setting which will always look at the SKUs that were pasted into the search and recall the records in that order? If we wanted to order by SKU number, we could always add that as the default. I'm just curious if this is possible... order by what is placed in the search window?
Thanks,
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Jonathan Varo | Business Applications Analyst III - PIM Team Lead
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation | 480-845-5823
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