I'm very new to MT and had a question on custom fields. I created a custom field (viewable only on Entries) that is a dropdown menu with various options. Now I would like to try and sort items based on the option value of the custom field. However, I don't know if it's possible. I can sort on the custom field itself without issue, but not on the option items contained in the dropdown. I assume that custom field dropdown menu items aren't coded as individual "values" so using a value="[option]" doesn't work or at least, if it does, I can't figure out the syntax. An example of what I mean:

Custom Field: Issue_area
Options: Issue 1, Issue 2, Issue 3, Issue 4

Would like to sort and display as:

Issue 1
[list all entries shown tagged with this option]

Issue 2
[list all entries shown tagged with this option]

etc

I can only get it to show as:

Issue 1
[Entry]
Issue 1
[entry]
Issue 2
[entry]
Issue 3
[entry]
Issue 1
[entry]

etc

It sorts on the CF only not sub-options. Anyway, don't know if it's even possible. Could be I need to use another type of custom field to do this and not a dropdown menu.

EDIT: Sort of an example...

<mf:If field:issue_area="issuename"> where issuename is one of the options in the drop down. I was just trying it in this syntax since the example in the documentation shows a field:special="1" which checks to see if a checkbox is checked or not. I've tried an eq="issuename" also. Again, don't know if it's even possible.

Thanks for any insights.