Ordering of Newsboxes in Upfront ... and automation

[dwood09]

I've come across an interesting issue with Upfront NewsBoxes and automation...

to ensure that a newsbox is listed first, I have put a space in front of it's name ... eg " Prior Year" newsbox appears before "02-03" and "03-04"...

the issue that I have come across is that I have noticed that some of my automated processes see this item as "//NewsIndex/History/Newsindex", rather than "//NewsIndex/History/ Prior Year" ... it seems that when a space is used as the first character in a newsbox name then it is recognised internally as "Newsindex" ...

I suppose I could test for a space first and then work with the newsbox, but that's a bit ugly.... any thoughts on why this phenomenon exists would be much appreciated.

cheers,
DW

[Blue]

If you used an underscore instead of a space how does that sort?

[dwood09]

thanks Blue ... underscores, dashes, dots ... all are fine ... just that damn space ...  ???

cheers,
DW

[Darek]

If content sorting is what you crave, there might be a better solution. I'd like to refer you to an article yours truly wrote ages ago and which is available at this URL:

http://www.brightstarpartners.com/tech_corner.htm

Have fun. I did.

[dwood09]

Thanks Darek,

brilliant ... food for thought, thats for sure ... I'll have a look at this in a week or so and let you know how it goes.

thanks again!

cheers,
DW