Question

I have a dropdown getting populated by fetching a query on the database.
Say it fetches items given as follows:

Teacher,
Student,
Pricipal,
Sweeper,
FinanceManager.

While showing it in the dropdown, I wish to show it in the following order:

Principal,
FinanceManager,
Teacher,
Student,
Sweeper.

This isn’t any specific order (ascending or descending), but just a order that has some relevance according to the personalities.

How do I acheive ?

Answer 1

Since you fetching the data from database,the easy solution to me is adding a extra column to the same table which hold order.

eg. Your Table
    Column1 Column2 .... DisplayOrder(int)
    Principal                     1
    FinanceManager                2
    etc...

So you can order by the DisplayOrder when you do the selection