  
| Author: | gunga  | | Posted: | Feb 8, 2022 16:18 | | Subject: | Fractions | | Viewed: | 142 times | | Topic: | Catalog Requests | | For: | Catalog Associate | | Status: | Discarded | |
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| While this request is not overly important, is there a way to actually use the
fraction characters like ¼, ½, and ¾ instead of 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4?
The reason I bring this up is that whatever software is used, it orders parts
incorrectly by size.
For example, in Windscreens,
and
where the middle dimension is 4 2/3, are listed before
and several others that have a middle dimension of 4.
I believe it's because the software reads the '4' in each entry but
then sees the '2' in '2/3' and puts it first because the next
symbol in the others is 'x'. Numbers before letters. Which then puts
the parts out of order by size.
I do not know where the software puts the fraction symbols in the order of alphabetizing.
Would '4½ x 2' be listed before '4 x 2? My suggestion only works
if a 'space' is listed ahead of all symbols, numbers, and letters.
I remember Brickstore had an ordering problem in the past. For Bricks, it once
went 1x1, 1x10, 1x12, 1x16, 1x2, etc. It has since been fixed.
Anyway, just an observation I came across working on my inventory.
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Message Has 4 Replies:  Re: Fractions - tons_of_bricks (12770) | It's because it's organizing things alphabetically, not numerically. I get the same problem with remarks (AA-1, AA-10, AA-2); I'm having to put zeros in just [...]
(28 months ago, Feb 8, 2022, to Catalog Requests) |
Re: Fractions - randyf (442) | [...] I am sure that they could be used. Although, I am not sure how they would sort. But will we be using them? I highly doubt it, as this would require updating thousands [...]
(28 months ago, Feb 8, 2022, to Catalog Requests) |
Re: Fractions - 1001bricks (52394) | [...] Yes but here isn't a Site for ordering parts by size. It's for buyers (and eventually sellers if they've the part in stock). I can see zero buyer being [...]
(28 months ago, Feb 8, 2022, to Catalog Requests) |
Re: Fractions - peregrinator (776)  | I'm not sure adding the Unicode fraction characters would be helpful for sorting (as an aside, TIL that there are characters for ⅓ and ⅔!). But I don't see why [...]
(28 months ago, Feb 8, 2022, to Catalog Requests) |
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