Sorting Scripts

Sometimes I need to look thru the Scriptmaker list to find a script and over
time they have been moved around.
It would be nice to just sort them by Alpha and/or Creation date to ease the
eyestrain.

Is this already possible?

Win XP and FM Pro9.

John G.

On 2008-09-30 02:39:13 -0700, "John G" <green.TakeThisOut@ozemail.com.au> said:

> Sometimes I need to look thru the Scriptmaker list to find a script and over
> time they have been moved around.
> It would be nice to just sort them by Alpha and/or Creation date to ease the
> eyestrain.
>
> Is this already possible?
>
> Win XP and FM Pro9.

No. Other than the folder structure in FM9, there are no organizing
tools for scripts. Even getting the folder structure is a major
triumph for developers.

It helps if from the beginning the developer(s) have a consistent
naming scheme for scripts and some concept of where things are going.

For instance, in my Scriptmaker, there is always a Developer
section/folder, a Nav section, Open/Close scripts, and then folders for
each operational part of the file. So, for example, I keep Invoice
scripts in an Invoice folder, and each script is named:

Invoice_ScriptNameGoesHere

This lets me restrict my searching to a much smaller section of the
script list. Organizing scripts is easy. If your scripts aren't named
logically, and you don't have too many hard-coded script names in your
code, I recommend a long afternoon renaming and organizing them.
Further development will be easier.

Also, did you know that if you select a script or folder in the list
before you hit New Script, the new one will be created at that spot
instead of at the bottom of the list? Saves much script-dragging time.
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