== Sorting QSOs ==

=== Quick Sorting ===

To sort the QSOs shown in the '''Log Page Display''' in ascending order of start time, click the '''UTC''' button in the '''Sort''' panel in the bottom-left corner of the '''Main''' window's '''Log QSOs''' tab.

To sort the QSOs shown in the '''Log Page Display''' in ascending callsign order, click the '''Call''' button in the '''Sort''' panel in the bottom-left corner of the '''Main''' window's '''Log QSOs''' tab.

=== Comprehensive Sorting ===

There are two primary ways to sort the '''Log Page Display''':

 1. by clicking the '''UTC''', '''Call''', or '''USer''' button in the '''Sort''' panel in the lower-left corner of the Main window's '''Log QSOs''' tab

 1. by double-clicking a ''column caption'' (heading) in the Log Page Display

The first time you double-click a column caption, the Spot Database Display will be sorted in ascending order of the column whose caption you clicked. If you double-click the ''Frequency'' column caption, for example, the Log Page Display will be sorted in ascending order of Frequency. If you double-click the same column caption a second time, the Log Page display will be sorted in descending order of the column whose caption you clicked. 

Note that when you sort the Log Page Display by double-clicking a column caption, all three buttons will be cleared in the '''Sort''' panel in the lower-left corner of the Main window's '''Log QSOs''' tab, and the '''Sort''' panel will display the caption of the column by which the Log Page Display has been sorted. If the Log Page Display has been sorted in descending order of a column (because you double-clicked hat column's caption twice), the '''Sort''' panel will display the caption of the column by which the Log Page Display is sorted, followed by the word {{{desc}}} to remind you that the Log Page Display is sorted in descending order of the column you selected by double-clicking.

Quickly sorting the Log Page Display in ascending order of ''QSO Begin'' or ''Call is easy'' click the '''Sort''' panel's '''UTC''' or '''Call''' button, respectively. The '''Chronlogical Sort Order''' panel on the Configuration window's '''Log''' tab controls whether clicking the '''Sort''' panel's '''UTC''' button puts the most recent QSOs at the top or the bottom of the Log Page Display.

To sort the Log Page Display by a column that is not currently visible in the Log Page Display, or to perform a ''multi-item'' sort like "sort the Log Page in increasing order of Callsign, and then in decreasing order of frequency, and then in increasing order of Mode", use the '''Advanced Sort''' panel at the top of the '''Advanced Sorts, Filters, and Modifiers''' window; to display this window, click the '''Adv''' button on the Main window's '''Log QSOs''' tab.

The '''Advanced Sort''' panel lets you define up to four '''SQL sort''' expressions, and choose one of them to sort the Log Page Display. An '''SQL Sort''' expression is a comma-separated list of items names, e.g.

{{{CALL, QSO_BEGIN}}}

Sorting by the above '''SQL Sort''' would first filter the Log Page Display by ascending order of ''Callsign'', and then by ascending order of ''QSO date and time''. Thus QSOs with callsigns you've worked more than once would appear in ascending order of date and time. You can also specify descending sort orders, e.g.

{{{CALL desc, QSO_BEGIN}}}

To sort the Log Page Display by any '''SQL Sort''' expression, specify that expression in one of the '''Advanced Sort''' panel's four text boxes, click the '''Select''' button to the right of the textbox in which you entered the '''SQL Sort''' expression, and click the '''Sort''' panel's '''User''' button (in the lower-left corner of the Main window's '''Log QSOs''' tab).


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