Custom sort...

[meteorquake]

Hello all! Can someone remind me if there's a way to custom sort, for example hypothetically suppose I wanted files with Jupiter in the title to appear at the result top, then files with Saturn, then everything else...?
David

[void]

Can be done with formulas and custom columns.

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<<Jupiter a:=1> | <saturn a:=2> | <a:=3>> sort:a

[meteorquake]

Aha thanks, that seems to work, and the subsort can be done a similar way, so I have

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file: <<orig a:=4> | <ext:pdf;djvu;odt a:=1> | <ext:txt;ini a:=2> | <a:=3>> <<ext:pdf;djvu;odt b:=$name:> | <b:=$ext:>> sort:a,b

It may be there could be a page of language equivalents so that people who naturally know how to do a thing in some language can look a thing up and find the Everything language equivalent.

So if someone knows SQL they would look up Case When... or if someone knows VBA they would look up Switch() or If Then Else, and so be given a link to the type of code above. They could look up Order By and find sort: and so on

David