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On 26/10/11 5:30 AM, Bill Steele wrote:

>
> Well, what I have so far is a value list taken from a repeating field,
> and the value list *does* adopt the order of the items in the field.
> What I need is a way to make it easy for a user to change the order. The
> ideal would be something like the Filemaker script editor, where you can
> grab a line and move it up or down. (Can that be done in the Xcode
> interface builder?)



Do not use repeating fields. They are hammer and chisel technology, and 
break first normal form.