Sorting order in "Open Help Project" view

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Swede
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Sorting order in "Open Help Project" view

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Can the sorting order be changed for pinned projects in the "Open Help Project" view? I think this feature was available in previous versions. I regularly work on twenty or thirty different projects and it would be nice to be able to organize them on screen.
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You can move pinned items up and down in the list, but there is currently no sorting option (and there wasn't in previous versions). I'm passing this request on to the development team for consideration. 8)
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I also like to pin projects.
In V8, the pinned projects now stay pinned at the top but in contrast to previous versions rotate so habitually clicking on the same position in the list doesn't always open the same project.
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Come to think of it, moving pinned projects up and down (i.e. sorting them manually) is actually what I want but how do I do that? Right-clicking on a project only gets me the options "Open", "Open in New Instance" and "Remove", no "Move up" or "Move down".
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Re: Sorting order in "Open Help Project" view

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It depends on the version you are running.
See viewtopic.php?f=39&t=16889
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John Johann wrote: Mon Apr 26, 2021 5:04 pm It depends on the version you are running.
See viewtopic.php?f=39&t=16889
That's correct. I'd forgotten that the move options in the pinned list were originally missing and have been reinstated in an update. 8)
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Re: Sorting order in "Open Help Project" view

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Hello again,
I can move an item in the list but it won't stay in the position where I've pinned it. Instead, the latest opened and saved project gets the top position by default. I'd like to move and pin the projects in a fixed order, I believe this was how it worked in earlier versions. How can I achieve this in version 8.3.1?
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Hi Swede,
That's what I meant in my first reply -- the pinned projects don't remain in the fixed order. They did in V7 so I'm hoping this will get fixed in a coming build.
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Ah, OK. I misunderstood. I'll wait for the update.
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