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Configuring Siebel Business Applications > About Business Components, Fields, Joins, and Links > About Business Components > How a Business Component Sorts RecordsA sort specification is a property of a business component that impose a sort order on the records that Siebel CRM returns to an applet that is associated with this business component. For example, the predefined Account business component includes a sort specification property with the following value: Name(ASCENDING), Location. This value instructs Siebel CRM to do the following:
A sort specification includes the following qualities:
For more information, see the following topics:
How Siebel CRM Sorts a Multi-Value FieldIf you reference a multi-value field in a sort specification, then Siebel CRM does the following sort:
For more information, see About the Multi-Value Field. How Siebel CRM Sorts a Check Box FieldIf a sort specification references a check box field, then Siebel CRM sorts the following values: If a sort specification references a check box field, and if you define the sort in descending order, then Siebel CRM returns the records in the following order: How the Visibility Mode Affects a Sort SpecificationSiebel CRM forces the sort in the All visibility mode to be on the primary key. The sort in Manager mode occurs on a column in the denormalized reporting relationship table. You can still sort records after the initial query. For better performance, you must sort records after you filter for a small record set. You can use the All Mode Sort business component user prop to force Siebel CRM to use a custom sort specification or to ignore all sort specifications. For more information, see Siebel Developer's Reference. |
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