Automatic Arrangement Of LOFs In A Bank

BidPlus has provided you with an automatic Line arrangement tool that is invaluable in contributing to the flexibility of this program. In addition to the Cut and Paste , and Drag and Drop Editing, with this tool, you are able to arrange the Lines in a Bank in just about any order you like in a matter of seconds.

Please be sure to review the Criteria Selection topic, and the Bank Overview topic in order to have a better understanding of how Editing works.

By default, the Lines that are automatically selected and placed in a Bank are arranged in numerical order. This order is rarely the order that is desired. Starting on the Criteria Selection screen, notice the phrase 'Line Number' in blue, just to the left of the Criteria Sentence area.

This is your indication that the Lines in this Bank will be arranged in numerical order. Now notice the Sort Bank button in the button bar.

Although the phrase 'Line Number' is only available on the Criteria Selection screen, the Sort Button is available from both the Criteria Selection screen and the Review and Edit screen. Clicking on either the phrase 'Line Number', or clicking on the Sort Button will present you with the Line Arrangement Dialog Box.

Notice that the arrangement order is set to 'Least to Most' by default. Now, click on the list box and display the list of possible arrangement criteria.

In this example, we will select 'Holiday Pay'.

Notice that the arrangement direction has now automatically changed to "Most to Least". Now click OK, and then notice that the phrase 'Line Number' has now changed to 'Holiday Pay'.

A Line arrangement change can me accomplished either before or after a Search. If the arrangement selection is made prior to a search, then the resulting LOFs will automatically be arranged in this order. If the change is made after a Search when Lines already exist in the Bank, then those Lines will be re-arranged immediately.

It is highly likely that 2 or more LOFs in the Bank will end up with the exact same value in their arrangement request, such as Holiday Pay. In the case of a tie, then those effected Lines will be arranged in numerical order relative to each other. They will still be in order of Holiday Pay (or whatever the arrangement criteria is) relative to the other LOFs.

In order to break the tie, BidPlus has provided you with additional flexibility. By opening up the Line Arrangement dialog box again, you are able to select a second criteria by which to sort the Lines that end up in a tie.

When you click OK, this additional arrangement request is now displayed on the Criteria Selection screen.

Be careful not to choose a second criteria that might conflict with the first. For example, the criteria of Line Number will never cause a tie. So to add a second criteria such as Holiday Pay would be ineffective.