[AccessD] OpenFileDialog multiselect order

Paul Hartland paul.hartland at googlemail.com
Wed May 1 10:01:53 CDT 2019


If not you could always get the list of files, and reorder them using the
val of the number before the dash in the file name.

Paul

On Wed, 1 May 2019, 15:53 Ryan W, <wrwehler at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'll have to see if that's possible, the filenames are auto generated out
> of another piece of software.
>
>
> On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 9:46 AM Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:
>
> > Hi Ryan
> >
> > Rename the files to 02-File.txt, 03-File.txt etc.
> >
> > /gustav
> >
> > -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> > Fra: AccessD <accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> På vegne af Ryan W
> > Sendt: 1. maj 2019 16:40
> > Til: Access Developers discussion and problem solving <
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> > Emne: [AccessD] OpenFileDialog multiselect order
> >
> > Is there a way to control the MultiSelect order when selecting files?
> >
> >
> > Say we have files:
> >
> > 2-File.txt
> > 3-File.txt
> > 4-File.txt
> > 5-File.txt
> > 6-File.txt
> > 7-File.txt
> > 8-File.txt
> > 9-File.txt
> > 10-File.txt
> >
> > If you click 2-File.txt and hold shift and select 10-File.txt, it selects
> > them all but then in the Filenames list below the file list, it shows the
> > order as 10-File.txt, 2-File.txt, 3-File.txt (etc).
> >
> > So when the files get imported into the DB, 10-File.txt gets read in
> first
> > which changes the sequence of how we want the data imported.  Right now
> the
> > 'workaround' is import 2-9, then come back and get 10+.
> >
> > This is with Access 2013, though I don't think the version matters much.
> >
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