Hi Amanda,

Our hierarchy browser doesn't disappear when entering data - we're using Adlib 7.0, are you running an older Adlwin version?

By the way I guess the sorting of the hierarchy display is based on the occurrence sort order of your field parts_reference, if that has no occurrence sort order applied, your child records will display on the order in which you added them.so it's worth looking at your parts_reference field in Designer, check for occurrence sort.

RE dates displaying on the hierarchy browser, you can configure which fields to display for each record within the hierarchy display, that's done in Designer - I can give more detail on how that's done, if you want to do that and you're a Designer user? Let me know...

Cheers
Stephen

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On 14 Aug 2013, at 15:34, Amanda Ingram <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Ha! Ha!  That drives me round the bend!
> 
> Obviously I have not found a way round it but if you do then please, please let me know.
> 
> I made the mistake of doing a later series early on (because it was photographs and I wanted to get them packaged) so now 'M' is forever stuck between 'B' and 'C'....
> 
> The other very annoying thing about the h-list is that it disappears when you are inputting anything and also it doesn't show dates so if you have any illumination about those things I would be equally grateful.
> 
> One day I hope to actually be able to give you a useful answer to something....
> 
> Cheers :-)
> 
> Amanda Ingram
> Archivist (Wed-Fri)
> Pembroke College
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: re-ordering things
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> This is probably a really simple question for all you AdLib experts, so bear with me!
> 
> Is it possible to re-order the items in the heirarchy list?  When I add a new item (or even edit it, in some circumstances), it is always added to the bottom of a series but sometimes it ought to be somewhere else.  
> I assume that there is a way to do this, but I can't find anything in the manual.
> 
> Of course, it may be something to do with my rather odd classification system which was originally devised by a librarian rather than an archivist....!
> 
> Many thanks,
> Judith
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