Sorting your list

Once you've filtered the Item Tracker down to the
work you care about, you can change the order the items are listed in.
Sorting doesn't change which items show — only the order they appear in.


How to sort
Click a column heading to sort the list by that column. Click
the same heading again to reverse the direction (ascending ↔
descending). The list re-orders right away.


What you can sort by

• Customer name — group a customer's items together.


• Order number — keep all the items from one order side by side.


• Time — sort by when items are due (date and time required). Best for working a day in order.


• Order type — group by how the order leaves (pickup, delivery, and so on).


• Item — sort by product, grouped by category and subcategory. Good for making the same kind of thing in a batch.


• Location — sort by where items physically are.


• Decorator — group each decorator's items together.


• Production location — sort by where items are being made.


• Finished — separate what's done from what's still outstanding.

Tips

• Sort by Time to work a rush in due-date order — the earliest deadlines rise to the top.


• Sort by Item when you're batching: all the same product lands together so you can make them in one go.


• Sort by Decorator when a lead is handing out the day's work.


• Sorting and filtering work together. Filter first to get the
  right items, then sort to put them in the most useful order for the
  task at hand.