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The **Order **property is a reference to a structure that contains the sort, range, and filter information for the managed VIEW. The ViewManager methods use this information to sort, range limit, and filter the VIEW result set.

Several ViewManager methods affect the contents of the Order property, including AddSortOrder, AddRange, AppendOrder, and SetFilter. The SetOrder method overrides a particular sort order, and the SetSort method determines which sort order is current for the underlying VIEW.

**Implementation:**

The Order property is a reference to QUEUE declared in ABFILE.INC:

**FilterQueue QUEUE,TYPE**

**ID           STRING(30)      !sorted to indicate priority**

**Filter       &STRING         !filter expression**

**            END**

**SortOrder  QUEUE,TYPE     !sort & filter information**

**Filter      &FilterQueue  !ANDed list of filter expressions**

**FreeElement ANY           !the Free key element**

**LimitType   BYTE          !range limit type flag**

**MainKey     &KEY          !the main KEY**

**Order       &STRING       !ORDER expression list**

**RangeList   &BufferedPairsClass !list of fields in range limit**

**           END**

**See Also:**     [[addsortorder  add a sort order .htm|AddSortOrder]], [[addrange  add a range limit .htm|AddRange]], [[appendorder  refine a sort order .htm|AppendOrder]], [[setfilter   add  change  or remove active filter .htm|SetFilter]], [[setorder   replace a sort order .htm|SetOrder]], [[setsort  set the active sort order .htm|SetSort]]