Hi JPD,

That is kind of what I did but I was hoping there was some other way since assigning a value to every status forces me to go to the actual sub every time a new status is added/removed. This is not very often but...

Cheers
-JO

PS: for those interested, I created a new type of field (changed field Status from alpha to status) and then added two new sort routines (status_descend and status_ascend).
I then replaced the status strings (ONLINE...) by numbers and did the compare.