APPLICATION DESIGN

Setting a sort order for a DOLS subscription
A sort order language determines the rules by which documents are ordered in views. For example, some applications use a sort order in which documents are sorted by number first, then letter.

The default sort order of an application is determined by the operating system of the computer it's on. This could be a problem with a DOLS subscription if the sort order offline (on the user's computer) is different from the sort order online (on the IBM® Lotus® Domino(TM) server). Users would see the same information in the views, but in a different order than you intended.

To ensure that the same sort order is used online and offline, specify a sort order in the Database Properties - Design tab of each database in the subscription. Select "Multilingual database" and select a sort order language.