InterForm Manual - System & Method

262 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ®
Find sort fields in the following positions
Sort field no. Print line Position Ascending/Descending
1 _15 _34 - _41 A
2 ___ ___ - ___ _
Example 2. Sort by Type, “modules.” letters first:
To reverse the sequence of the letters compared to above we can just state the sequence to
be Descending:
Find sort fields in the following positions
Sort field no. Print line Position Ascending/Descending
1 _15 _34 - _41 D
2 ___ ___ - ___ _
Example 3. Sort by Type and Customer ID:
To increase the detail level of the search we could have the groups of Document and modules
letters sorted according to Customer ID. This would also be necessary if some of the letters
consisted of more than 1 page, where page 2 and succeeding pages only indicate the
customer ID, but not “Document” or “modules.”.
W e add an extra sort definition, where we search for the customer ID:
Find sort fields in the following positions
Sort field no. Print line Position Ascending/Descending
1 _15 _34 - _41 A
2 _13 _57 - _60 A
Example 4. Sort by Customer ID and type:
Another approach could be to sort by customer ID’s first and then by the type being
“Document” or “modules.”. This is achieved by reversing the order of the sort fields from the
previous example:
Find sort fields in the following positions
Sort field no. Print line Position Ascending/Descending
1 _13 _57 - _60 A
2 _15 _34 - _41 A
In an AFC definition we can activate the sort definition SORTDEMO, by using function B:
Update AFC-functions attached to output queues AFC305D
Queue: AFC_INPUT2 Library: APF3812
Seqnbr F. Formtyp Save Jobname Filename Device file Program UserData
(No functions defined)
Seqnbr Function
1,0 D Sort Spooled File
Sort definition name . . . . . . SORTDEMO__
Outque for sorted print . . . . *INPUT____
Library . . . . . . . . . . . __________
Form type . . . . . . . . . . . SORTDONE__