Title: Negative values
Last modified: January 1, 2023

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# Negative values

 *  Resolved [msamavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msamavi/)
 * (@msamavi)
 * [3 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/negative-values-3/)
 * Hello,
 * I am still looking for a way to list only products with negative values in the‘
   Current Stock’ or ‘Back Orders’ column of Stock Central. My Woocommerce shop 
   has hundreds of simple and variable products, of course.
 * Any comment please?

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 *  Plugin Author [Salva Machi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/salvamb/)
 * (@salvamb)
 * [3 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/negative-values-3/#post-16334346)
 * Hi [@msamavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msamavi/)
 * On the “backorders” column should be only displayed figures for products with
   backorders enabled and negative stock.
   What’s the problem here, please?
 * Best Regards,
   Salva.
 *  Thread Starter [msamavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msamavi/)
 * (@msamavi)
 * [3 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/negative-values-3/#post-16334394)
 * Hi [@salvamb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/salvamb/)
 * Thank you for your reply.
 * The Backorder column does show negative values, but when you click on the column
   header to do an ascending sort, it starts from zero not negative values!
 * Secondly, I have not found any way to list only items with negative values in
   stock or backorder!
 * Any help would be appreciated.
 *  Plugin Author [Salva Machi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/salvamb/)
 * (@salvamb)
 * [3 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/negative-values-3/#post-16334477)
 * I’ve just tried it and it’s working as expected for me:
 * > [View post on imgur.com](https://imgur.com/uAmIF4c)
 * Perhaps what you have are negative stock in variation products?
   In this case,
   the column sorting cannot sort these values as variation products are on a second
   level. Only products in the first level (simple products, for example) are effective
   for sorting.
 * But the negative values should appear on the variations when applicable, of course.
 *  Thread Starter [msamavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msamavi/)
 * (@msamavi)
 * [3 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/negative-values-3/#post-16334796)
 * Hi [@salvamb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/salvamb/)
 * Yes, as I indicated in my initial post, many of my products are variable. Isn’t
   there any way to sort first and second levels altogether?
 * Or, filter to list only stock or backorders with negative values?
 *  Plugin Author [Salva Machi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/salvamb/)
 * (@salvamb)
 * [3 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/negative-values-3/#post-16334850)
 * Actually is not possible to sort them all together.
   Just take this as an example:
 * If you have a variable with 10 variations and only one of them has negative stock
   and the rest have stock (but different quantities each one), how we would sort
   them in the same level as all the other simple products?
   Please, note that the
   variations always have the variable product at the top (as a container). So, 
   in this case, we would have to repeat the variable container row as many times
   as the number of variations and sorting positions to be able to sort them all
   in the correct place.So two levels at the same time is not technically possible
   in the way ATUM works, I’m sorry.
 * However, if you click on the top “Backorders” view, it should show only products
   with backorders enabled and stock lower or equal to 0:
 * > [View post on imgur.com](https://imgur.com/a/JITLHjw)
 *  Thread Starter [msamavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msamavi/)
 * (@msamavi)
 * [3 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/negative-values-3/#post-16360815)
 * Hi [@salvamb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/salvamb/)
 * I tried many possibilities, for example I filtered product types as ‘Simple’ 
   or ‘Variable’ (using the top dropdown filters), but no sorting action takes the
   negative values into account!
 * Do you advise checking mysql table field settings or so?
 * Thank you
 *  Plugin Author [Salva Machi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/salvamb/)
 * (@salvamb)
 * [3 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/negative-values-3/#post-16361074)
 * Hi [@msamavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msamavi/)
 * But do you have negative values in simple products?
 * If so, the first thing I would try is to check for any possible conflict with
   any 3rd party plugin by disabling all your plugins except WooCommerce and ATUM.
 * Best Regards,
   Salva.

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