Sorting record list issue

Hi Jerry,

Just to clarify: you want to be able to order the records in the "books" table based on their assigned "genre" field, but based on the dragSortOrder assigned to the genre_categories records - is that correct? If so, could you clarify where/how you're attempting to sort these records? This kind of thing will likely require a table join which is a more advanced operation, and how it is accomplished will depend on the context.

Thanks,

Hey Daniel,

Thanks for looking at this and responding.

The 'genre_categories' table is sorted by dragSortOrder DESC

The 'books' table with the 'genre' field that gets it's values from the 'genre_categories' table is sorted by the 'title' field (sort tab in the section editor) and that's how the default record list comes up, sorted by title.

When I click on the 'genre' column heading to sort the 'books' table record list by 'genre', the genre column comes up sorted by record number instead of by the table's dragSortOrder.

Every place else that the 'genre' list comes up (the pull down for setting the value for a new record, and in the front end search forms, the genre's are sorted by dragSortOrrder as they should be.

Hope that makes sense.

I can give you access to the back end if that would help make things clearer.

Again, thanks.

Jerry Kornbluth

Hi Jerry,

Unfortunately, the CMSB list pages don't support this kind of advanced sorting without custom programming. Simply put: the "books" table doesn't know anything about the "genre_categories" table, so it can't use its dragSortOrder unless a table join is used, which isn't something the list pages can do by default. Feel free to send us an estimate request (https://www.interactivetools.com/estimate/) and we'd be happy to help out.

Thanks!
Daniel

Hi Daniel,

Kind of what I figured.

Any rough ballpark idea of what it might cost?

Then I can check with the client (yet another pro-bono project) and find out how important this is to him.

Thanks again for all your time,

Stay safe!

Jerry Kornbluth

Hi Jerry,

Creating a plugin to do this I'd ballpark at around 1-2 hours.

Cheers,

Thanks Daniel, I'll ask him.

Jerry Kornbluth

Hi Daniel,

'Sorry for spinning your wheels.

The client would rather wait on the plugin for now.

If things change I'll post back.

Thanks again for being there for us.

Jerry