Question

My problem: I have a page of "new people"" in the department. People are added as they join. Each person has a section and there is a table of contents, but the TOC is in order of joining.

I would like to view the TOC in alphabetical order. As long as I'm at it, I might as well look for a generalizable solution that can sort any bullet list.

I looked at SpreadSheetPlugin but the sort functions want table cells. No tables here.

I figured JavaScript could solve the problem.

Environment

-- VickiBrown - 06 Jul 2008

Answer

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I did a web search for JavaScript that sorts lists and found a very promising script written by Bruno Bornsztein (blog.feedmarker.com). I ran into a few oddities - such as the fact that TWiki TOCs don't have a unique ID :-( but they do have a unique class :-) (providing, of course, that there is only one TOC on the page!)

I modified the JS to handle classes and got it working. You can see the results on my TWiki page.

The Javascript code is attached: list_sort.js

-- VickiBrown - 06 Jul 2008

Have a look at FilterPlugin. Its FORMATLIST might fit your needs.

-- MichaelDaum - 07 Jul 2008