> Also the GROUP BY clasue in SQL is a different beast than the group
> attribute in
It is, and I think it's more what you're looking for. You don't have to
order a group by. By default, depending on your query, it would order it
the way it was entered.
SQL is really quite awesome, and a sup
Correct, but if a filed being 'GROUPED' in CF is not ORDERed in SQL, then
disinct items in the 'outer loop' may beoutput more than once.
For example:
#name#
--#item#
Will give you:
Bob
--book
--ball
Jane
--book
Mary
--dress
Jane
--shoe
Bob
--bat
Also the GROUP BY clasue in SQ
If he's typing it in in "order" then why not just order it by the
autointeger field?
-Original Message-
From: Les Mizzell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 2:53 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Group - but with no order specified
> I'm not
> I'm not trying to sound like a wiseass, but just point out a
> perspective: if the client doesn't care what order they're in, what's
> the harm in ordering them?
Client wants it in the order he typed it in, not an alpha sort or
anything. What the client don't get though is that he's not necess
If you've got access to mySQL then just ORDER BY RAND().
-Original Message-
From: Ken Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 3:01 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Group - but with no order specified
It may well be that they don't "not car
It may well be that they don't "not care". They may be specifically
asking that they not be in any sort of discernible order.
Why are you using the group in the cfoutput instead of in the query?
--Ferg
Joe Rinehart wrote:
>> If I add a ORDER to the query, it obviously works - but, the client
>
> If I add a ORDER to the query, it obviously works - but, the client
> doesn't WANT them in any order. He just wants the groups together.
I'm not trying to sound like a wiseass, but just point out a
perspective: if the client doesn't care what order they're in, what's
the harm in ordering them?
> I'd suggest creating a SORT_ORDER (INTEGER) column for
> each of the myGROUP records and ask your client what order he'd like
> them in.
This is probably what's going to have to happen.
Otherwise, Yoda says, "Solutions there are, but convoluted are they!".
~
CF doesn't care if the records are actually in order, it just processes
the outer loop when there's a change of value.
If myGROUP has a numeric primary key you could do your ORDER BY on that,
rather than on the name of it.
Failing that, you could sort in some strange way that might look random,
b
I don't know what DB you're using, but have you tried using 'group by'?
Something like this:
select fname, lname, address, city, state, zip
from contacts
group by state, city, zip
> -Original Message-
> From: Les Mizzell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 1:00 PM
>
This idea may seem complicated, but it should work. Put the ORDER BY in the
SQL. Create an empty array. Do your cfoutput with the 'group' attribute. Use
cfsavecontent to put each Group's output into a variable in the array. Then
you can use some kind of randomizer to grab the output from the array.
Only order the groups, not the subgroups?
On 4/11/06, Les Mizzell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a way to group output in a query and keep the groups together,
> but with no order specified anywhere?
>
>
> Select myGROUP, mySubGROUP from myTABLE
>
>
> I need output like:
>
> 1. myGROUP
>
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