[pmwiki-users] Pagelist sorting accross groups

[Pico Ben-Amotz]

On 9/8/07, Mike Shanley <up at upisup.com> wrote:
> Pico Ben-Amotz wrote:
> > Is there anyway to cause a pagelist to sort across groups using order=
> > and a page text variable?  I have a PTV (called NextDate) that appears
> > on pages in more than one group.  I would like to have a pagelist that
> > returns all pages sorted by the NextDate.  Right now, the pagelist
> > returns a list that is sorted by groups before being sorted by dates.
> >
> The problem is that the fmt= you're using automatically groups the pages
> by groups.
>
> The easiest way to get them sorted would be:
> (:pagelist $:NextDate=- order=$:NextDate fmt=#simple:)
>

Thanks, your answer was helpful and makes sense.

Unfortunately, there was something else that was going on in my case
and I can no longer reproduce it.  You see, the fmt that I have been
using all along does *not* actually appear to group by groups:

fmt=#nextdates
[[#nextdates]]
* {=$:NextDate} [[{=$FullName}|{=$Titlespaced}]] {=$:NextAction}  {=$:Location}
[[#nextdatesend]]

At tis point, I can't reproduce the problem.  I thought it might have
had to do with the fact that I was specifying groups
(group=GroupOne,GroupTwo), or the fact that one of the groups was a
variable (group={$Group},GroupTwo), but nothing I try will reproduce
the problem I wrote about.  So, sorry for wasting your time, and tanks
for your reply.

Pico