Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.Hi, the module's function of sorting data seems to be limited to pure numerical and alphabetic order. Is there anyway that I could input date (i.e. MM/DD/YYYY) and sort according to the date column? Thanks again for your wonderful module!
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Comment #1
pobster commentedWell... :o) If you input it in the format:
YY/MM/DD
Ensuring that you call 'single' digit months 0-something (ie. 01, 02, 03) then sorting althabetical will work just fine for you - but yep :o) I like your thought on allowing a column to be a date (and thus have a date selector rather than just an input field), I like it a lot!... But... And there's always a 'but' :o( Someone else will be releasing a 'Tablemanager v2' which will be a lot more involved and allow data types and although I *could* perhaps add this facility to my version, my programming knowledge is verrrrrry limited and I can offer no sort of timescale to getting this implemented. I'm currently struggling to make tablemanager Drupal 4.7 compatible and I'm failing miserably. It all works just fine, but I keep getting pager errors and I just don't know why :o( And obviously fixing this will be my main priority at the moment.
...Watch this space though ;o) Because as I said, I *do* like this idea! :o)
Pobster
Comment #2
kzeng commentedHi, Pobster
Thanks a ton for your detailed reply. But I seem to encounter another problem after you fixed the lasted bug (i.e. the default sorting bug). Now no column can be sorted at all. Could you please check it? Thanks a lot for your hepl!
cheers,
kzeng
Comment #3
pobster commentedWell... I'm using the current version and it appears to be fine? :o( One Drupal type bug is that if you select the first column to be sortable then it doesn't automatically make it a darker colour than the others (anything other than the first column is fine though).
Other than that... I don't know what to suggest :o(
Pobster
Comment #4
pobster commentedHeh :o) Obviously being darker colour doesn't affect whether it can be sorted or not ;o) But my columns are sorting just fine?
Pobster
Comment #5
pobster commentedAha! :o) Okay I've figured out why mine is fine - it's because I page my results and when the results are erm... un-paged (is that a word?) then no sorting takes place...
...I'm on it... Thanks for pointing this out - I'd have never noticed it myself as I always paginate everything!
Pobster
Comment #6
alexn commentedIndeed, thanks for the leade. If you don't specify a max rows, sorting doesn't work. If you specify one (e.g. 1,1000) it works, no matter how many rows.
Comment #7
pobster commentedI've currently released a 4.7 version and one of my goals with this is to implement date sorting... I've started working on it today, watch this space!
Pobster
Comment #8
pobster commentedClosing as D4.6.x is now VERY unsupported.