Question

I'm trying to exclude from sorting several columns in a table. Such columns may contain unsortable items (e.g. images) or items that make no sense to sort by. Here's a sample table:

Name	Description	Age	Rating
Mike	he's cool	23
John	John's fun	21
Tim	smart guy	30

Apparently, columns become sortable only if ALL columns are between * characters. In the table above I have only 2 columns between *s, and that breaks both sorting and the "header" look, even if headerrows is set to 1.

Is there a way to exclude columns from sorting?

Environment

-- DanDascalescu - 23 Mar 2007

Answer

sorting is done by the TablePlugin - if there isn't anything doccoed there, I guess not :/ - you chould raise a reature request on TablePluginDev.

-- SvenDowideit - 28 Apr 2007

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Sorting only works for tables with complete header rows. This is implied in the documentation: "Click on column heading text to sort by a column. Initial column will be sorted in descending order, click again to get ascending order."

There is currently no way to exclude a column from sorting.

-- PeterThoeny - 28 Apr 2007