Define Block Sorting dialog

 

Define Block Sorting properties
Sorting criteria
Each row in the list represents the criteria for sorting a field or variable. The sorting priority is in top to bottom order. You can specify the following for a sorting criteria:
XPath	The XPath expression, typically to a Message field within a repeated block. In this case, the field is relative to the XPath position of the node selected by the Repeater Use the browse button to open the Data Selection dialog where you can select the field. However, you can also sort using a node relative to the position of the current Repeater node. In this case, you can use the strs-current-position() StreamServe XPath function, as in the following example: $sort_keys[strs-current-position()]
Type	Specifies whether the sorting is performed on textual or numeric values.
Order	Specifies if the order is ascending (e.g A-Z), or descending (e.g. 9-0)
Locale	Specifies which locale to use for textual sorting. For example, if you want to sort Swedish input data with Å, Ä, Ö coming last in the alphabet, specify Swedish locale (sv-SE).