Properly recognize numerals when sorted alphabetically

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When sorting all the Tasks within a Project by “alphabetical”, it should properly recognize numerals.

Now that we’ve found a solution for auto-numbering tasks (thanks to https://www.projectprocs.com/auto-numbering), I’ve noticed that the numbers are not displaying in sequential order. Instead they are displayed in true alpha order.

So, what you get is…
Task-1
Task-2
Task-22
Task-3
Task-34

But, it would be ideal to be sorted as…
Task-1
Task-2
Task-3
Task-22
Task-34

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Thanks for the feedback @jeremyw! I’m not sure if this is something we’re planning to update in the near future, but I’ll make sure to share it with our product team for consideration!

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What we normally do in our team is to make sure the numbers are of the same length.

Task-01
Task-02
Task-22
Task-03
Task-34

This way when sorted it will still be as expected. However, you need to know beforehand the max length of the sequence, so everything will be formatted the same way.

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Thank you. That’s sound advice!

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