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Reference Guide
This guide describes conceptual information about data design environment components when you want to use the data fabrication feature in HCL OneTest™ Server.
Schema design
A schema is a graphical data dictionary that contains metadata definitions of the structure of a document to generate test data. Schema provides visual cues for understanding the structure and complete definition of an object.
Functions and expressions
Lookup and reference functions
SORTUPBY

Reference Guide
This guide describes conceptual information about data design environment components when you want to use the data fabrication feature in HCL OneTest™ Server.
- Files
  You add a file to a project to use it as input in the project. You can upload a file from your local file system to a project from the Files tab to generate test data. Alternatively, you can upload it when you define an action.
- Connections
  A connection defines the properties that are required to connect to an external resource. An action uses a connection to provide source data to a project or write data from a source to a target. Multiple actions can use the same connection. You can define both connections and actions at the project level.
- Schema design
  A schema is a graphical data dictionary that contains metadata definitions of the structure of a document to generate test data. Schema provides visual cues for understanding the structure and complete definition of an object.
  - Introduction to schema design
    Use the Schemas tab to define, modify, and view schemas. A schema describes the syntax, structure, and semantics of your data.
  - Type properties
    The properties of a type define the characteristics of the data objects of that type.
  - Item restrictions
    Item restrictions are an optional feature you can use to specify valid or invalid data objects for an item type. Item restrictions are grouped into three categories: Value, Character, and Range.
  - Components
  - Partitioning
  - Type inheritance
  - Schema analyzer
  - Distinguishable objects
  - Functions and expressions
    - Expressions and evaluations
    - Using functions
    - Syntax of a function
    - Function argument syntax
    - Functions that convert character-set encoding to the native code page
    - General functions
    - Bidirectional functions
    - Bit manipulation and testing functions
    - Conversion functions
    - Date/time functions
    - Error handling functions
    - External interface functions
    - Inspection functions
    - Logical functions
    - Lookup and reference functions
      - CHOOSE
      - DBLOOKUP
      - DBQUERY
      - DDEQUERY
      - EXTRACT
      - GETANDSET
      - GETDIRECTORY
      - GETITXUID
        The GETITXUID function returns a universally unique identifier (UUID).
      - GETLOCALE
        The GETLOCALE function returns the locale setting of the computer.
      - GETFILENAME
      - GETPARTITIONNAME
      - GETRESOURCEALIAS
        The GETRESOURCEALIAS function returns the resource alias value specified in a Resource Registry resource name file (.mrn).
      - GETRESOURCENAME
      - GETTXINSTALLDIRECTORY
        The GETTXINSTALLDIRECTORY function returns the HCL® OneTest™ Data product installation directory.
      - INDEX
      - INDEXABS
      - LASTERRORCODE
      - LASTERRORMSG
      - LOOKDOWN
      - LOOKUP
      - MEMBER
      - SEARCHDOWN
      - SEARCHUP
      - SORTDOWN
      - SORTDOWNBY
      - SORTUP
      - SORTUPBY
      - UNIQUE
      - GETENV
        The GETENV function returns the value of the environment variable. If no variable exists, an empty string is returned.
      - GETOSNAME
        The GETOSNAME function returns the name of the operating system.
    - Math and statistics functions
    - Text functions
    - XML functions
    - Custom functions
    - Date and time format strings
    - Number format strings
    - RUN function return codes
    - Character set codes for CPACKAGE, CSERIESTOTEXT, and CTEXT

SORTUPBY

Use SORTUPBY to sort the objects of a series based on a component that the objects contain. The SORTUPBY function returns the input series, sorted in ascending order by the value of the specified component.

When the character set of the data is ASCII, the objects are sorted in ASCII ascending order.
For all other character sets, the objects are sorted in binary ascending order.

The SORTUPBY function does not sort the output of the EXTRACT, REJECT, or UNIQUE functions.

Syntax:: SORTUPBY (series-item-expression, single-item-expression)
Meaning:: SORTUPBY (group_series_to_sort, group_component_to_sort_by)
Returns:: A series object

SORTUPBY returns a series of instances of a group, sorted in ascending order by the value of an item that the group contains.

Example

In this example, the group Soldier contains the items:

Name
Rank
Serial number

The following command returns the instances of Soldier, sorted in ascending order by Rank:

SORTUPBY (Soldier:Army, Rank:Soldier:Army)

Related functions

SEARCHDOWN
SEARCHUP
SORTUP
SORTDOWN
SORTDOWNBY