Question

When using the Search command you have the possibility to add a parameter order. e.g. order="editby" but is there also a possibility to make the sort on different columns thus eg. first on "editby" and then on "modified"?

I tried several things but I could not find a solution

Is this possible?

Environment

-- FrederikBeun - 27 May 2008

Answer

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As far as I can tell, VarSEARCH will only allow one key. That documentation topic suggests using a formatted table sorted with TablePlugin's initsort, but that only supports one key too.

Hopefully someone else has a better way to do this, but here's a work-around: hide the secondary key in the same column as the primary key, so that a search on that column uses the combined key. If the secondary key is a date (as you requested), use $isodate to make the combined key sortable. You don't have to display the date in that form though (e.g., used $date below).

Here is a sort by column 2 then column 3:

For comparison, here is a sort by column 2 only,

For bonus points, you could play around with the table format to make it look like a straight search result.

-- SeanCMorgan - 27 May 2008

Cool workaround Sean, thanks for sharing!

-- PeterThoeny - 28 May 2008

Good idea thanks, you helped me a lot

-- FrederikBeun - 30 May 2008