It only returned 1 record because (I would assume) that ThreadID would be the last record once it reached there.
I worked around it though. When someone posts a message, I update the first thread with the last posted date and sort on that. :) Feels a little like a kludge, but it's clean enough for me to be comfortable with it. On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 3:39 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It looks like it should return a result for you. I would suggest adding the > 'posted desc' to the order by of the query in a query line, in case your > messages are not sorting correctly. > > william > > William Seiter (mobile) > > Have you ever read a book that changed your life? > go to: http://www.winninginthemargins.com > and use passcode: GoldenGrove > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Phillip Vector" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> > Sent: 6/2/2008 2:34 PM > Subject: Order by another query > > > I have a query that pulls all the top messages in a forum for each > area (So I have the thread titles). > > I want to sort by the last posted, but it isn't working.. > > This is the code I came up with so far.. > > <cfquery datasource="#datasource#" name="AllMessages"> > select * > from forum_messages > where areaID = #session.areaID# > order by sticky DESC, Posted DESC > </cfquery> > > <cfquery name="Messages" dbtype="query"> > select * > from AllMessages > where MainThread = 1 > order by sticky DESC > </cfquery> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:306663 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
