Message sort order

I want to change the default message sort order so messages are listed by most recent first, instead of oldest first in the mailbox.
I've been reading about modifying the message list here:
http://docs.sun.com/source/816-6010-10/uicst.htm#13511
and just want to confirm that if I modify the meSortOrder variable in the main.js file, will that change the default message list for all existing mailboxes displayed in webmail?
Also, does anyone know for sure whether the variable to list the newest messages first is meSortOrder=last or meSortOrder=L ???
My system specs:
iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 Patch 1 (built Jun 6 2002)
libimta.so 5.1 Patch 1 (built 06:07:28, Jun 6 2002)
HP-UX wwcc B.11.00 A 9000/879 674411361 two-user license
Thank you - Forrest

Yes, thank you Jay - and I am working towards that now - in part due to the information you shared.
But the question I am faced with will remain, can I change the default webmail message display from "oldest first" to "oldest last" on the system level. And at this time, I'm not sure if a newer version will change that default.
So, from what I've read, in part from this Messenger Express customization guide:
http://docs-pdf.sun.com/816-5986-10/816-5986-10.pdf
you need to change the SortOrder variable to 'last' in the main.js.
From my tests, this does not work. There seem to be preset variables options, and 'last' is not one of them. However, there are two more variables that look like they could affect this change: 'sorting' and 'orgSort'. Does anyone know how to change this setting to have the newest messages displayed first?
Thank you,
Forrest

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When i iMessage from my iPhone and return to my mac, i often find that the newer messages in a given conversation are shown above te older one! this is weird. this happens all the time with atleast one contact. whats going on?
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Hi,
This issue seems to have existed since iMessages Beta in Lion.
Mostly it effects the synced messages that arrive on the Mac after you have been using another device to have the conversation.
In the document about the OS X 10.8.4 update Apple suggested they had "fixed" one cause of the issue.
However the app itself did not receive an update suggesting the change was to the support side of things.
The messages that are synced do not appear to use the Time Stamps of the iMessages when they were sent (and shown in the conversations) but these do not seem to arrive from the iMessages servers in the same order.
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I recently upgraded from SL to ML. I'm having a few issues with an applescript i use to flag/unflag emails for later handling.
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I added this before my script
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                              tell menu bar item "View"
                                        tell menu "View"
                                                  tell menu item "Sort By"
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                                                                      click menu item "Subject"
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                                                  end tell
                                        end tell
                              end tell
                    end tell
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Any way to Restore Last Manual Sort Order or Prevent from being Overwritten accidentally?

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That is a good question, to do this requires two functions and a restart of Bridge all done automagically
Copy and paste the script into ExtendScript Toolkit
This gets installed with Photoshop and can be found:-
PC: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Utilities
MAC: <hard drive>/Applications/Utilities/Adobe Utilities
Start Bridge
PC: Edit - Preferences - Startup Scripts
Mac: Adobe Bridge menu - Preferences - Startup Scripts
At the bottom click the "Reveal Button" this will open the folder where the script should be saved.
Close and restart Bridge.
Accept the new script.
To use:
Tools - Backup Manual Sort
This will backup the hidden manual sort file .BridgeSort to .BridgeSortSave
Tools - Restore Manual Sort
This will copy the .BridgeSortSave back to .BridgeSort and will close and restart Bridge so that the manual sort is restored.
if( BridgeTalk.appName == "bridge" ) {
var backUpManSort = new MenuElement( "command","Backup Manual Sort", "at the end of Tools" , "backupms" );
var RestoreManSort = new MenuElement( "command","Restore Manual Sort", "at the end of Tools" , "restorems" );
backUpManSort.onSelect = function () {
var fileSort = new File(app.document.presentationPath +"/.BridgeSort");
var fileSave = new File(app.document.presentationPath +"/.BridgeSortSave");
if(fileSave.exists) fileSave.remove();
fileSort.copy(fileSave);
fileSave.hidden=true;
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var fileSort = new File(app.document.presentationPath +"/.BridgeSort");
var fileSave = new File(app.document.presentationPath +"/.BridgeSortSave");
if(!fileSave.exists){
alert("No backup file exists");
return;
app.document.sorts = [{ type:"string",name:"document-kind", reverse:false }];
if(fileSort.exists) fileSort.remove();
fileSave.copy(fileSort);
fileSort.hidden=true;
app.document.chooseMenuItem("mondo/command/new");
app.documents[0].close();
app.document.sorts = [{ name:"user",type:"date", reverse:false }];
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Photoshop CS3 web gallery bugs(?); vanishing metadata, bad sort order

Running OS 1.5.4 on 24" Imac, I'm attempting to generate a "horizontal slideshow" from bridge-selected files in Photoshop CS3.
[Sounded like the problem in this post: http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b5a9fe/2 but on re-reading I've decided it's different so I'm giving it it's own thread, with more detail...]
Here's my experience:
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Hitting "refresh" produces the descriptive metadata for a tantalizing moment, then it' s back to the blank template for this and all subsequent slides. It does this both for Safari and Firefox.
You can view this behavior in a slideshow at http://oasisdesign.net/projects/earthtoilet/
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"preserve all metadata" is checked.
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http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b5a9fe/2
...After some investigation, I found that the descriptions were disappearing only for photos that had a Return / Line Break in the description. If you go back and make sure all of your descriptions are a single line, it works fine....
=Don't have line breaks, nor "and" nor &...
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bff9de1/0
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1) Sort everything the way you want in bridge.
2) Make meta descriptions w/o weird characters (a warning here would be helpful)
3) Use "batch rename," with "copy to another folder" to give the images totally plain vanilla, DOS-style file names (001.jpg, 002.jpg...). This solves most filename issues and the works around web gallery's failure to recognize bridge sort order in one go. Note that you can irrevocably screw up the names of all your original files if you're not very careful to COPY at this step.
([a] make the bridge sort work directly, as advertised, por favor. [b] add an error message or warning about file names such as 006-(2).jpg causing malfunction. A compassionate, low-effort short-term patch for Mac users of web gallery, especially since bridge generates that particular sort name itself invisibly and automatically if you move a file with the same name into a folder)
4) Use "white on black" instead of bug-ridden "horizontal slideshow" (horizontal slideshow should be fixed or deleted from the next version...multiple slideshow options would be awesome, as they advance automatically at the max rate the user's bandwidth allows, a very attractive feature)
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Itunes sort order different in playlist

I'm having a weird sort order problem... in one playlist - I have the column "album" sorted. The songs names (under "name") for one album sort just fine - the names are "ep 1", "ep 2", "ep 3", etc. and appear in that order.
However, if I click that album column to sort by "album by artist" - the song order changes. now they are seemingly random (although I imagine there has to be a reason behind the order).
The sort order of those songs is even different *in another playlist* - ie, they are not even in the same "random" order they show in when I sort them by "album by artist" in the other playlist above. They're in a "different random" order.
Any ideas?
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That's helpful for my issues with iPhone, which are yet another variation on what I'm talking about - but in going through the article, I couldn't find anything that pointed to why my "name" column is not sorting properly for the same artist album.
Selecting all the songs in that album, get info --> shows the artist, album artist and album names (both album artist and artist are exactly the same) - so my point is there are not some kind hidden character problem - or they wouldn't match and therefore the fields would be blank.
If the "album by artist" is the primary sort, what does itunes use for the secondary column to sort? This should help me answer the problem.... it sure doesn't look like "name" column is used as 2nd... because it's not sorted!
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Hi,
Where can I set the the sort order for the portal screen which lists the managers tasks to approve when they select 'Launch WebDynpro' from the UWL.
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This is the note 1484853 but as i said you cant see it unless you raise a Message for SAP , We have to add yout company to the note.
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In LeaveRequestApprover application, a higher level manager can
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Sort order in an interactive report

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id - number
colA - varchar2
colB - varchar2
colC - date
colD - varchar2
In the IR, I'd like to have break on column A so that the report displays as follows:
colA
id, colb, colB, colC, colD
I want the sort order for column A to be based on the ID column, but I find that APEX displays it in alpha order based on the value for column A. I could include the value for ID in the break, but since it only has meaning inside the database, it leads to confusion among the users. I read some other posts where people have included the ID field and then used javascript to hide it in the report. I was wondering if there might be an alternative solution.

AT USER-COMMAND.
CASE SY-UCOMM.
WHEN 'BACK'.
IF SY-LSIND = 5.
SY-LSIND = 1.
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Sort order of documents in a collaboration room

hi everybody
i have a collaboration room where documents are stored in it. the sort order of my folders in the collaboration room is determined by the names of the folders.
now there are many folders in folders and at the bottom-level-folder there are the documents stored. these documents are sorted by the names of the documents too.
now my problem:
the sorting of the folders by name is OK, but at the bottom-level in the bottom-level-folder i need the documents sorted by "modified"-date (for all users). How can i easy made this change? (hope not to make a new layout set...:-() can you please post a guidance?
thank you for your help!
flo

thank you for your feedbacks...
the suggested solutions are not bad but i have this problem:
in the collaboration room we use two layout sets, one for the users with write-permission (layout set FileExplorer) and one for the users with read-permissions (layout set AnonymExplorer).
in the collaboration room the folder-structure for documents should be sorted by folder-name but in the bottom-level-folders, the documents should be sortet by modified-date.
now the problem is, that i can assign only one layout set to a folder, that would mean, that the users with the read- and write-permissions both would have the same view...
do you see another solution?
please help!
thank you
flo
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Sort order of Imessages and SMS

In previous IOS versions, when you deleted a Imessage or an SMS, the sort order of message automatically changed to last date. In IOS 8.1 the sort order
doesn´t do this, which means that if you delete a message send today and the one before that was sent yesterday, the message is not moved "down" my list and counted as from yesterday it still stays as if it was sent today.
Could you please fix this.
Thx (Apple 6 User)

The issue isn't really the T in The Beach Boys. The issue is the inconsistency between the sort in Finder, the playlist sort in the side bar, and the sort within Music.
1) If you make a smart playlist The Beach Boys, it will be sorted in the side bar under T, not under B.
2) If you make a smart playlist 409 (containing The Beach Boys' song 409), it will be sorted at the top before the letter A. In Music, it will be at the bottom, after the letter Z.
While this behavior may be of long standing, it is still inconsistent. I think we should be given an option as to how we want to sort numbers and punctuation marks. I assume that the american english sort order is not imposed on other language versions of iTunes. It shouldn't be difficult to allow the sort to match the locale of the computer, so that iTunes sorts match Finder sorts.
P.S. Most of my files are wave files from old records and tapes. I chose to name The Beach Boys The Beach Boys and The Beatles Beatles, i.e., I chose to put one under T and one under B. Only The Band, The Beach Boys, The Who, and The Soul Stirrers were worthy of the extra The, to be sorted under the T's where I wanted them to be (sorry Beatles).

AQ Sort Order

HI
I am trying to subscribe to a topic with Sort Order (priority,enq_time) using oracle.jms API.Payload type is an ADT generated from jpublisher.Though the same worked with Oracle.AQ API.
1)After publishing i am updating the priority through sql using payload data.But the subscribing application is always taking enq_time when actually it should be taking priority as first criteria.It is still taking default priority as 1 for all so sorting by enqueue time i feel.
2)If on the other hand i set different priorities while publishing throgh client itself,subscibing application is picking up correctly .i.e priority first the enq_time.
Sample code:
===========
// Get topic object
Topic topic = ((AQjmsSession) aq.session).getTopic(
DB_AQ_ADMIN_NAME, // Queue owner
"message_queue"); // Queue name
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topic, // Used topic
"SUBSCRIPTION" + _subscriptionId, // Name and identification of the subscription
null,// No message selector
QUEUE_MESSAGE_CAFU.getFactory()//CustomDatumFactory for the java class that maps to the Oracle ADT
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AQjmsAdtMessage adtMessage = (AQjmsAdtMessage) subscriber.receive(60000);
if(adtMessage != null)
QUEUE_MESSAGE_CAFU messageData = (QUEUE_MESSAGE_CAFU) adtMessage.getAdtPayload();
System.out.println("receive() successfully");
// Print message
System.out.println("ProductId : " + messageData.getProductId());
System.out.println("StoreId : " + messageData.getStoreId());
System.out.println("ProductName: " + messageData.getProductName());
System.out.println("country : " + messageData.getCountry());
Note:QUEUE_MESSAGE_CAFU is JPublisher generated class from an oracle object type
Regards
Raju

Answers from Oracle for anyone interested:
1. Is there any way to determine the enqueue order of a set of messages?
Enqtime is only to the second.
(**) Yes the enqueue order is enqtime + step_no. So if you concat it appropriately you will get the right >order.
2. If using a queuebrowser starting at a message ID, will messages appear in
actual order even if msgids are not in order?
(**) The message will appear in the enqueue time order.
3. Is there any way, preferably a sql query, to determine the messageID of
the last message enqueued to an AQ?
You could write a query which would compute the max(enqueue_time + step_no) say something like:
select msgid from queue_table where expr(enqtime, stepno) = (select max(expr(enqtime, stepno)) from >queue_table); This is true but Oracle forgot to say that the order is guaranted only if the messages are enqueued in the same session!! if the messages are enqueued by different sessions the result is unpredictable (the enqueue time is OK but the step_no is completly wrong, that is we can have different message at the same time with the same step_no)

AQ Sort Order (priority,enq_time)

HI
I am trying to subscribe to a topic with Sort Order (priority,enq_time) using oracle.jms API.Payload type is an ADT generated from jpublisher.Though the same worked with Oracle.AQ API.After publishing i am updating the priority.But the subscribing application is always taking enq_time when actually it should be taking priority as first criteria.
I am printing table property that to shows the correct sort order:
owner : aqadm
name : queue_message_table
AQQueueTableProperty]
payload_type : AQADM.QUEUE_MESSAGE_CAFU
storage_clause : null
sort_order : PRIORITY, ENQUEUE_TIME
multi_consumer : true
message grouping : NONE
comment : null
compatible : 8.1.3
auto_commit : true
primary inst : 0
Secondary inst : 0
Non Repudiation : 0
Secure : false
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===========
// Get topic object
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DB_AQ_ADMIN_NAME, // Queue owner
"message_queue"); // Queue name
               // Create topic receiver
               TopicReceiver subscriber = ((AQjmsSession) aq.session).createTopicReceiver
topic, // Used topic
                    "SUBSCRIPTION" + _subscriptionId,          // Name and identification of the subscription
null,// No message selector
                    QUEUE_MESSAGE_CAFU.getFactory()//CustomDatumFactory for the java class that maps to the Oracle ADT
               // Receive message
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               AQjmsAdtMessage adtMessage = (AQjmsAdtMessage) subscriber.receive(60000);
               if(adtMessage != null)
QUEUE_MESSAGE_CAFU messageData = (QUEUE_MESSAGE_CAFU) adtMessage.getAdtPayload();
                         System.out.println("receive() successfully");
                         // Print message
                         System.out.println("ProductId : " + messageData.getProductId());
                         System.out.println("StoreId : " + messageData.getStoreId());
                         System.out.println("ProductName: " + messageData.getProductName());
                         System.out.println("country : " + messageData.getCountry());
******QUEUE_MESSAGE_CAFU is JPublisher generated class from an oracle object type
Regards
Raju

Hello,
It's been quit a while since we mailed and I promised to get back on you.
I've been testing and I'm lost. It looks likes the messages are at random dequeued.
A user have enqueued different messages.
The enqueue code is :
-- Add new request to queue.
message_properties.delay := pkg_delay_time;
message_properties.priority := p_priority;
message_properties.expiration := pkg_expire_time;
message := proj_batch_queue_ot( p_projectid
, p_versionno                , p_action
, p_job_type
dbms_aq.enqueue( queue_name => pkg_schema||'.'||g_queue_name
, enqueue_options => enqueue_options
, message_properties => message_properties
, payload => message
, msgid => message_handle
It is an autonomous_transaction and is commited immediatly.
The dequeue code is:
declare
dequeue_options dbms_aq.dequeue_options_t;
message_handle raw(16);
begin
dequeue_options.navigation := dbms_aq.first_message;
dequeue_options.dequeue_mode := dbms_aq.browse;
dequeue_options.wait := dbms_aq.no_wait;
dbms_aq.dequeue (queue_name => pkg_schema||'.'||g_queue_name,
dequeue_options => dequeue_options,
message_properties => message_properties,
payload => message,
msgid => message_handle
The sort_order is priority, enq_time and still the messages are dequeued at random.
I hope you can help me.
I would be most grateful.
Regards

How to Control Sort Order of Playlists in iTunes?

As far as I can tell, somewhere along the way iTunes stopped sorting playlists alphabetically, numbers before letters, and started sorting playlists alphabetically, letters before numbers. Or at least that's how it now happens on my iPhone; I think the change happened with the iPhone 3.0 OS update.
Has anyone found a better way to set a sort order than by putting "AA" and "AAA" in front of the playlists they want to have at the top of the list? Because that's an awfully inelegant solution -- to my mind, if you have to use a prefix at all, using 01, 02 et cetera was a far better way of doing things. Is there a setting I can tick to go back to the old way? Or, better still, a way to set that sort order arbitrarily, independent of the playlists' names?
Message was edited by: Andrew Willett

If you label your favorite/priority playlists as A1, A2, A3...B1, B2, B3
Then they will sort the way you want (except on the iPod Classic which seems to have it's own sorting).

Sort order on reports

I've encountered a number of report views where the sorting is obviously flawed. For example if I run the Modification Date Age Report, choose the Age Criteria of Month and Year, and try and sort on the Date - it sorts that field in a string sort, not numeric sort, so I get 1/2001, 1/2002, 1/2003, etc. instead of 1/2001, 2/2001, 3/2001.
Any way to cure or change the sort order behavior?

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Reminders-sort order of tasks does not sync

I'm trying to use Reminders on my iPhone 4s, iMac running Mountain Lion and iCloud. Although syncing does occur BETWEEN THESE 3 APPS,
THE SORT ORDER OF THE TASKS IS COMPLETELY OUT OF SYNC. I need to sort my many to do tasks manually as priorities change
daily. Therefore it's important to have the sort order (sequence of task items) sync across these devices. I imagine many users would agree with this.

Just discovering for myself that re-ordering reminders can be achieved - but order is not synced between devices or shared accounts. Which is to say it's about as much use as a chocolate teapot.
For the record, I have thrown the equivalent of a message in a bottle to feedback - an action for which I believe the acronym is CWOT.
Also, it seems there's a thing called customer quality feedback...
Visit our Customer Quality Feedback (CQF) site at: http://www.cqf.apple.com/
However, it doesn't work...
Alas, it seems the writing is on the wall for Apple.

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