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#1 2006-08-27 19:00:33

elduderino

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From: Whitstable. south-East England

Registered: 2006-01-02

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sorting lists?

Hi there,

Im a little stuck with this and cant find an answer in the textbook.

I have a list generated with this:

<code><txp:linklist form=“Links” category=“quickbits” limit=“5” /></ul></code>

At the moment it seems to be sorting according to the alpahbetical order of the first word of the title. Anything starting with A appears at the top in other words. It seems a little strange

I cant work out how to sort it. I just want newest post in the list to show at the top.

Any ideas

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#2 2006-08-27 19:23:06

Mary

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Registered: 2004-06-27

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Re: sorting lists?

TextBook: linklist

sort="date desc"

#3 2006-08-27 19:24:01

ruud

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Registered: 2006-06-04

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Re: sorting lists?

Sorting is alphabetic by default (based on the linksort field). For sorting on anything else, you have to specify it.
Try: <code><txp:linklist form=“Links” category=“quickbits” limit=“5” sort=“date desc” /></code> (or “date asc” for reverse order. I can never keep those two apart)

<i>edit: just a minute too late, I see :)</i>

Last edited by ruud (2006-08-27 19:24:38)

#4 2006-08-27 19:46:39

Mary

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Re: sorting lists?

…for reverse order. I can never keep those two apart…

asc(ending) means first to last (going up a staircase), desc(ending) means last to first (going down the staircase). By alphabet, that’d be a to z and z to a. By date, that’d mean oldest to newest and newest to oldest.