"List of" proxy produces strange sort order

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"List of" proxy produces strange sort order

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I'm using a "List of" proxy to produce a List of Figures. The LOF is based on the figure captions <p.caption>, using the standard <MadCap:listOfProxy style="mc-list-of-tag: p;mc-list-of-class: Caption;" />. What is weird is that the LOF output is out of order. Within chapters, the figures are listed in order properly: 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, etc. The page numbers are all correct. The chapters themselves, however, are out of order in the LOF.
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Not only that, but the (incorrect) chapter order sometimes changes between builds!
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In the same document I have a Table of Contents produced by a different "List of" proxy. The TOC is produced in perfect order.
This is in a PDF Target. A parallel MSWord Target using the same proxy produces the LOF in the proper order.
Is there any place to control the sort order of a "List of" proxy? Any other ideas?
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Re: "List of" proxy produces strange sort order

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I received a notification from MadCap technical support that this is apparently a bug in Flare version 2016r2.
It looks like I will have to go back to a previous version until this is fixed.
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Re: "List of" proxy produces strange sort order

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Thank you very much for this information. I was just wondering about the same issue. :D
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moshe wrote:I received a notification from MadCap technical support that this is apparently a bug in Flare version 2016r2.
It looks like I will have to go back to a previous version until this is fixed.
Hi Moshe!

Wow, that's a big bug. I'm glad you've alerted the community about it. I have a very large set of Flare projects that produce only print output, so I'll have to be sure to work in Flare 12, too, until this is fixed.
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Re: "List of" proxy produces strange sort order

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FYI: This bug was fixed in Flare version 2017.
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Re: "List of" proxy produces strange sort order

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It was? I have the latest and greatest and still doing this odd behaviour with my List of Tables list. I should say, this chapter order is fixed, but the restarting of table numbers begins at each chapter, even though I have increment set.
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Glenn Lea wrote:It was? I have the latest and greatest and still doing this odd behaviour with my List of Tables list. I should say, this chapter order is fixed, but the restarting of table numbers begins at each chapter, even though I have increment set.
It's not totally clear to me what you're describing. But the issue might be found in your stylesheet. I suspect that for the mc-auto-number-format attribute, you've got the auto-number series shown as "CT", meaning that it is confined to chapters. If you do not want your table numbers to reset back to 1 at the start of each chapter, then change "CT" to "GT" (G for global) or perhaps even just "T" (I'm not sure about that, so would test).

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