On Nov 30, 8:53 pm, petter <[email protected]> wrote:

> (defview some-table-view (:type table :inherit-from '(:scaffold some))
>   (field :order-by '(some field :desc))
>
> But it does not seem to work.

There's no such argument right now, see
http://viridian-project.de/~sky/user-guide.stx.html#Syntax.of.declarative.view.declaration
for a list of the
ones available.


> Also what is the prefered method of showing something which is not an
> actual field in the database?
>
> I have starttime and endtime in my db, but I would rather present the
> starttime and the duration rather than endtime. I can make a duration
> field and specify a reader or use the same reader for the endtime
> field. In either case I seem to get problems when the user is trying
> to sort using the field (the first will get a nil db field, the latter
> will sort by endtime rather than duration).

Yes, virtual fields (i.e. those with custom readers) don't benefit
from
sorting right now. This is a missing feature.


> Or do I have to create extra fields containing redudant information in
> my database?

That would be a way to kludge around it. Why not create a view, in
case
you're using SQL?

  Leslie

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