Hi Branko, > I have a question regarding sorting order. > When browsing items by title, there are 3 columns showed: > Issue Date, Title and Author(s). > If the items have the same Title and Author fields and differ by Date > only, > I assumed that they wold be sorted by Date, because that is the only > difference between them. > Wrong. It seems they are sorted by their IDs. > Therefore we need to add date in the title too, to have items sorted > chronologically. > > Can that be fixed somehow?
Actually, technically, if there's no difference in the fields to sort upon they are ordered by whatever the database feels like. This is most likely to be the order in which they were entered in the database, yes. If you are sorting by title, though, then it isn't immediately obvious that you'd want to sub-sort by date (I might have other fields displayed that make more sense to me), so I'd argue that it's not broken; adding a sub-sorting feature might be a reasonable next step, though. Doesn't just sorting by date satisfy your requirements? If you want to add sub-sorting as a feature, I'd recommend applying the new version of the browse code, which is considerably more flexible and easier to extend, and then making your changes there: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1702233&group_id=19984&atid=319984 Otherwise, you could add it to the Feature Request page in SourceForge. Cheers, -- Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Richard Jones | t: +44 (0)20 759 [48614 / 41815] Web & Database | e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technology Specialist | b: http://chronicles-of-richard.blogspot.com/ Imperial College London | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
