Multiple levels of grouping in custom sorts

robfreundlich says:
I'd like to be able to have multiple levels of grouping when I create a custom sort. Instead of a dialog that looks like this (sorry for the ASCII art):
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first Sort by: [Field] [Direction]
then Sort by: [Field] [Direction]
...
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Group by: [Field]
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You could simply do this:
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first [Group/Sort] by: [Field] [Direction]
then [Group/Sort] by: [Field] [Direction]
...
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Alternatively, this:
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first Sort by: [Field] [Direction] [ X ] Group
then Sort by: [Field] [Direction] [ X ] Group
then Sort by: [Field] [Direction] [ ] Group
then Sort by: [Field] [Direction] [ ] Group
...
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Once a user has picked "Sort", all subsequent choices become "Sort", since it's pretty weird to group *after* sorting. In my second UI proposal, the "Group" checkbox on the fourth and subsequence lines would be disabled to achieve this, since the user chose not to group on the third line.
================================
first Sort by: [Field] [Direction]
then Sort by: [Field] [Direction]
...
----------------
Group by: [Field]
================================
You could simply do this:
================================
first [Group/Sort] by: [Field] [Direction]
then [Group/Sort] by: [Field] [Direction]
...
================================
Alternatively, this:
================================
first Sort by: [Field] [Direction] [ X ] Group
then Sort by: [Field] [Direction] [ X ] Group
then Sort by: [Field] [Direction] [ ] Group
then Sort by: [Field] [Direction] [ ] Group
...
================================
Once a user has picked "Sort", all subsequent choices become "Sort", since it's pretty weird to group *after* sorting. In my second UI proposal, the "Group" checkbox on the fourth and subsequence lines would be disabled to achieve this, since the user chose not to group on the third line.

robgia says:
I think is very important do this!
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