Reorder checkbox based on LOV

Question

Awkward customer, well not really! A client has requested that a few pages that list options via checkboxes are ordered differently. In some cases I have 60 checkboxes or so in three or four columns ordered alphabetically. APEX does this fine, ordering by column then row; the client wants row by row. I can do this using SQL but it is awkward when I am hoping there is a way of doing it that might be easier?
Currently
1 2 3
4 6 7
8 9
Desired
1 4 7
2 5 8
3 6
Phil

Answer 1

Phil,
Try the mod function. For the example above:
"order by mod(rownum + number_of_columns, number_of_columns + 1), rownum".
Number of columns in this case would be 3.
Here is a simple query:select y.a result
  from (select x.a, rownum rn
          from (select 'a' a
                  from dual
                union
                select 'b' a
                  from dual
                union
                select 'c' a
                  from dual
                union
                select 'd' a
                  from dual
                union
                select 'e' a
                  from dual
                union
                select 'f' a
                  from dual
                union
                select 'g' a
                  from dual
                union
                select 'h' a
                  from dual
                union
                select 'i' a
                  from dual
                union
                select 'j' a
                  from dual
                union
                select 'k' a from dual) x) y
order by mod(y.rn + 3, 4), y.rnand the result isRESULT
a
e
i
b
f
j
c
g
k
d
hHope this helps
Jure