- Controlling the Display Order of Operations

Controlling the Display Order of Operations

Display Groups determine how WOW separates different operations. All operations with the same

Display Group will be grouped together when the application is run. Any name that would help with

grouping the operations will work in this field. If the Display Group is not specified, that operation

will appear under the Default group.

The parameter that specifies which Display Group that an operation appears in is the Display Group

parameter. There are two elements involved in the ordering of operations. One is the order that the

Display Groups appear. The other is the order in which the operations appear within the Display Group.

Both of these order elements are determined by the single property Display Order. Within a Display

Group, the operation with the lowest value appears first in the list. The next greater value in that

Display Group appears second, etc. The order of the Display Groups is determined by the operation in

each group with the lowest Display Order. The minimum value in each Display Group is then used to

place the Display Group in the proper order. Upon creating operations, WOW will automatically set the

Display Group Operation ID * 10 as the display order. This can manually be changed as shown below.

For example, if we have the following operations and their associated properties, the operations

will be displayed as shown:

Here is the result:

Swapping the display order values of the Car Inventory and Order Date operations, will in turn swap

the order of the operations within the Orders Display Group.

Changing the display order of the Agreement operation to a negative (-) value will cause the minimum

value of the display order for the Customers Display Group to be less than the Orders display group, which

will switch the order of the entire set.

Here is the result: