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Sort by Date not working

Thread began 4/21/2015 6:28 am by gstoyle396649 | Last modified 4/23/2015 11:33 am by Ray Borduin | 1594 views | 8 replies |

gstoyle396649

Sort by Date not working

I've set up sorting using table header links. These work fine for VARCHAR and INT columns but not for DATE.

DATE columns are formatted using the standard yyyy-mm-dd format. Sorting works fine in the actual database, but not on the web page.

Any help appreciated.

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

There is no reason why it would work any differently. I'd have to look at the code to see why it isn't working. Really date works exactly like an int as the database uses a timestamp as the date.

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gstoyle396649

That's what I figured but it doesn't seem to be working.

Which part of the code would you need to see?

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

If you attached the page that does the sorting and sent me a URL where I could view it, that might be enough.

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gstoyle396649

Thanks. I'll send you a PM.

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

It looks like it would work. I'd have to debug it directly through ftp. Is the column specified as a "Date" column in the database? Maybe it is the column type of the database causing issues.

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gstoyle396649

OK thanks - I've sent you a PM with login info.

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

The issue was that you already had an ORDER BY clause in your recordset SQL statement. The sort behavior was appending to that statement and not removing the sort you had there, so it was always sorting by name first... essentially negating any other sort since names are unique. The solution was to remove the ORDER BY statement from the recordset and add it as the default order by in the sort server behavior.

After making this change the page appears to work... it had nothing to do with data types or date fields.

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gstoyle396649

I thought it would probably be something simple - I didn't think to check that (obviously).

Many thanks for your help - it's much appreciated.

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