This would probably be slightly easier if you maintained the sort column and direction in a 2-column array (user scope) and then adjusted the array (using @FILTER and @ADDROWS) as the user requests. Then you would only need a small routine (TCF call?) to convert the array into the ORDER BY clause.
The array would allow you to remove all of the IF statements, easily establish a initial sort order, and would be very easy to manipulate if you made the argument of the sort order link the same syntax as the value of the @ADDROWS (although this does give away hints as to the internal structure of your database.) Robert -----Original Message----- From: Ted Wolfley [mailto:t...@ogdengroup.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 10:48 AM To: witango-talk@witango.com Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Multiple Sorts My mistake on the @@request$vsortorder should have been @@user$vsortorder. You will have to add a replace tag before assigning the new sort. Ex( sort version): if existing sort order is "1,2,3,4" and the new sort to be added is "3" to make the sort "3,1,2,4" you have to remove the existing "3" first. Ted -----Original Message----- From: WebDude [mailto:webd...@cipromo.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 10:25 AM To: witango-talk@witango.com Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Multiple Sorts Okay, I got the vsortorder to load... Pretty slick. First off, I cannot use @@request$vsortorder... It just isn't being recognized. I think I have an older version of Witango that doesn't let me use that scope. When I change it to <@VAR vsortorder> it works fine. Now that being said... I get to around 5 clicks (in which the sorts all work exactly as planned) and then Witango crashes. I am muxing the result array somehow. I am not sure how to post the sort arguments... Do I need to do a search for every post of the sort? Here is what I have so far. By the way... Thank you for the help... I appreciate it. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Matching Records</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <@IF EXPR="<@ARG sort>= 1"> <@COMMENT>company</@COMMENT> <@IFEMPTY VALUE="<@VAR vsortorder>"> <@ASSIGN NAME="vsortorder" VALUE="1 NUM ASC" SCOPE="user"> <@else> <@ASSIGN NAME="vsortorder" VALUE="1 NUM ASC, <@VAR vsortorder SCOPE=User> " SCOPE="user"> </@IF> <@ELSEIF EXPR="<@ARG sort>= 2"> <@COMMENT>lname</@COMMENT> <@IFEMPTY VALUE="<@VAR vsortorder>"> <@ASSIGN NAME="vsortorder" VALUE="2 NUM ASC" SCOPE="user"> <@else> <@ASSIGN NAME="vsortorder" VALUE="2 NUM ASC, <@VAR vsortorder SCOPE=User> " SCOPE="user"> </@IF> <@ELSEIF EXPR="<@ARG sort>= 3"> <@COMMENT>state</@COMMENT> <@IFEMPTY VALUE="<@VAR vsortorder>"> <@ASSIGN NAME="vsortorder" VALUE="3 NUM ASC" SCOPE="user"> <@else> <@ASSIGN NAME="vsortorder" VALUE="3 NUM ASC, <@VAR vsortorder SCOPE=User> " SCOPE="user"> </@IF> <@ELSEIF EXPR="<@ARG sort>= 4"> <@COMMENT>customerid</@COMMENT> <@IFEMPTY VALUE="<@VAR vsortorder>"> <@ASSIGN NAME="vsortorder" VALUE="4 NUM ASC" SCOPE="user"> <@else> <@ASSIGN NAME="vsortorder" VALUE="4 NUM ASC, <@VAR vsortorder SCOPE=User> " SCOPE="user"> </@IF> <@ELSE> <@COMMENT>default</@COMMENT> <@ASSIGN NAME="vsortorder" VALUE="" SCOPE="user"> </@IF> <@VAR vsortorder><@COMMENT>Just so I can watch it</@COMMENT> <@IFEMPTY VALUE="<@VAR ResultSet>"> <@else> <@IFEMPTY VALUE="<@VAR vsortorder>"> <@else> <@SORT ARRAY="ResultSet" scope="local" COLS="<@VAR vsortorder SCOPE=User>"> </@IF> </@IF> <P> </P> <TABLE BORDER=0> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD> <B><a href="<@APPFILE>?_function=list&sort=1">Company</a></B> </TD> <TD> <B><a href="<@APPFILE>?_function=list&sort=2">Lname</a></B> </TD> <TD> <B><a href="<@APPFILE>?_function=list&sort=3">State</a></B> </TD> <TD> <B><a href="<@APPFILE>?_function=list&sort=4">ID</a></B> </TD> </TR> <@ROWS> <TR VALIGN=TOP> <TD> <A HREF="<@APPFILE>?_function=detail&login_request_uid1=<@COLUMN "login_request.ID" ENCODING=URL>&<@UserReferenceArgument>"><@COLUMN "login_request.Company"></A> </TD> <TD> <@COLUMN "login_request.Lname"> </TD> <TD> <@COLUMN "login_request.State"> </TD> <TD> <@COLUMN "login_request.ID"> </TD> </TR> </@ROWS> </TABLE> <P> </BODY> </HTML> -----Original Message----- From: Ted Wolfley [mailto:t...@ogdengroup.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 7:35 AM To: witango-talk@witango.com Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Multiple Sorts One correction, delete the <@ASSIGN NAME="vsortorder" VALUE="" SCOPE="user"> line before the first if statement or the sortorder will only sort on one column. -----Original Message----- From: Ted Wolfley [mailto:t...@ogdengroup.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 8:32 AM To: witango-talk@witango.com Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Multiple Sorts Here is a quick example, all in a Results Action: order of columns returned: company, lname, state, customerid build the sort: ASSIGN NAME="vsortorder" VALUE="" SCOPE="user"> <@IF EXPR="<@ARG sort>= 1"> <@COMMENT>company</@COMMENT> <@IFEMPTY VALUE="@@request$vsortorder"> <@ASSIGN NAME="vsortorder" VALUE="1 NUM ASC" SCOPE="user"> <@else> <@ASSIGN NAME="vsortorder" VALUE="1 NUM ASC, <@VAR vsortorder SCOPE=User> " SCOPE="user"> </@IF> <@ELSEIF EXPR="<@ARG sort>= 2"> <@COMMENT>lname</@COMMENT> <@IFEMPTY VALUE="@@request$vsortorder"> <@ASSIGN NAME="vsortorder" VALUE="2 NUM ASC" SCOPE="user"> <@else> <@ASSIGN NAME="vsortorder" VALUE="2 NUM ASC, <@VAR vsortorder SCOPE=User> " SCOPE="user"> </@IF> <@ELSEIF EXPR="<@ARG sort>= 3"> <@COMMENT>state</@COMMENT> <@IFEMPTY VALUE="@@request$vsortorder"> <@ASSIGN NAME="vsortorder" VALUE="3 NUM ASC" SCOPE="user"> <@else> <@ASSIGN NAME="vsortorder" VALUE="3 NUM ASC, <@VAR vsortorder SCOPE=User> " SCOPE="user"> </@IF> <@ELSEIF EXPR="<@ARG sort>= 4"> <@COMMENT>customerid</@COMMENT> <@IFEMPTY VALUE="@@request$vsortorder"> <@ASSIGN NAME="vsortorder" VALUE="4 NUM ASC" SCOPE="user"> <@else> <@ASSIGN NAME="vsortorder" VALUE="4 NUM ASC, <@VAR vsortorder SCOPE=User> " SCOPE="user"> </@IF> <@ELSE> <@COMMENT>default</@COMMENT> <@ASSIGN NAME="vsortorder" VALUE="" SCOPE="user"> </@IF> Sort the results set, checking if there is results first or it will error: <@IFEMPTY VALUE="@@request$ResultSet"> <@else> <@IFEMPTY VALUE="@@request$vsortorder"> <@else> <@SORT ARRAY="ResultSet" scope="request" COLS="<@VAR vsortorder SCOPE=User>"> </@IF> </@IF> I did the example in ascending order, it can also be done in descending or both directions, just add additional <@elseif> to the sortorder statements. Ted -----Original Message----- From: WebDude [mailto:webd...@cipromo.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 7:31 AM To: witango-talk@witango.com Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Multiple Sorts Well... That's the way I do it. But it seems that you cannot have a blank variable or multiple sorts within 1 variable... Or am I missing something here. Do you have an example? -----Original Message----- From: Ted Wolfley [mailto:t...@ogdengroup.com] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 10:13 PM To: witango-talk@witango.com Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Multiple Sorts I found it better and faster to do the sort after the results are returned in the Results Action. Use a user variable and keep appending to the beginning, then use the variable in the sort tag. Remember to have a way to clear the sort and the variable Ted -----Original Message----- From: WebDude [mailto:webd...@cipromo.com] Sent: Mon 3/1/2010 7:29 PM To: witango-talk@witango.com Subject: Witango-Talk: Multiple Sorts Typically in the past, I load a sort into a variable and then add that variable as a sort in the search function... I then use an argument to change the sorts... <@IFEQUAL <@ARG sort> "1"><@ASSIGN sort "company_info.company">/@IF <@IFEQUAL <@ARG sort> "2"><@ASSIGN sort "company_info.lname">/@IF <@IFEQUAL <@ARG sort> "3"><@ASSIGN sort "company_info.state">/@IF <@IFEQUAL <@ARG sort> "4"><@ASSIGN sort "company_info.customer_id">/@IF I've been going around and around on this... is there anyway to hold onto the sorts so, let's say, they click on Company first, and then click on last name, they get a sort by lname, company. An thus, if they click next on State, they get a sort of state, lname, company... and so on. I'm sure this has comeup before... I just can't find the answer. 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