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[Daniele Albrizio <albrizio AT univ.trieste.it>]

On 07/11/2016 12:38, Stefan Winter wrote:
> Am 07.11.2016 um 12:31 schrieb Daniele Albrizio:
> > I was wandering how to influuence the order multiple profiles get shown
> > in the "Select the user group" menu.
> >
> > Are they ordered by profile ID? alfabetically? or what?
>
> No particular order is enforced: they are displayed in the order SQL
> gets them from the DB, and the query has no ordering clause:
>
> SELECT profile_id FROM profile WHERE inst_id = X
>
> If deterministic ordering is important, we can implement this as a feature.
>
> Note that ordering based on the display name can have surprising results
> due to multi-linguality; if the translations of profile names have
> different lexicographical order they will be displayed differently
> depending on the language the user has chosen.
>
> The more deterministic order would be by profile_id.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Stefan Winter

Well, in some scenario, I'll prefer to orter them by most used profile 
(say: bigger user group) to less used one. Or make the Android profile 
show as first(-aid) since that strage very widespread OS breaks 
connectivity when I change my CA chain no matter how much time I plan in 
advance...

Using profile_id would make me insert profiles in CAT in the exact order 
I want them to show: which is tricky, but surely deterministic.

Well.... low priority.

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