I actually believe I might be braindead too today!
The query I gave you is really the same as saying SELECT * FROM weapons



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From: "Seona Bellamy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 11:46 AM
Subject: [cfaussie] Sorting data by category


> OK, feeling braindead today, which is probably not the best time to be
> messing around with this stuff but I'm trying to feel like I'm doing
> something useful. ;)
>
> I have a whole heap of data I want to display in a table. First of all I
> need to sort it by category, then by size. So I have a query to select the
> categories from the table, and I loop over this. Inside the loop I have
> another query which pulls out the data and orders it by size. Then I do a
> <cfoutput> to loop over the query with the group function using size.
>
> Does this sound good in theory?
>
> Here's the practice:
> The first query selects every instance to each category. So it's a helluva
> list, and contains heaps of duplicates. Is there a way to only select each
> value once? I'd thought there was, but I can't find it anywhere.
> The second problem may or may not be related, but the data displayed by
the
> second query only has one value for each size, even when I know for a fact
> that there is more than one item of that size in that category. Now, maybe
> when I get my category query playing nicely this problem will go away, but
I
> don't know. Is there anything I'm doing wrong? My code is posted below for
> anyone who wants to try and shed some light on this.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Seona.
>
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> <cfquery name="q_CategoryList" datasource="#request.dsn#">
> SELECT Category
> FROM Weapons
> ORDER BY Category DESC
> </cfquery>
>
> <table>
> <cfloop query="q_CategoryList">
> <cfquery name="q_WeaponSubList" datasource="#request.dsn#">
> SELECT ID, Name, Size
> FROM Weapons
> WHERE Category = '#q_CategoryList.Category#'
> ORDER BY Size
> </cfquery>
> <tr>
> <td valign="top">
> <cfoutput>
> <b>#q_CategoryList.Category#</b>
> </cfoutput>
> </td>
> <td>
> <table width="100%">
> <cfoutput query="q_WeaponSubList" group="Size">
> <tr>
> <td>
> #q_WeaponSubList.Size#
> </td>
> <td>
> <table width="100%">
> <tr>
> <td width="50%" valign="top">
> #q_WeaponSubList.Name#
> </td>
> <td>
> <A href="gm_Weapons.cfm?action=Edit&ID=#q_WeaponSubList.ID#">Edit</a>
> | <a
href="gm_Weapons.cfm?action=Delete&ID=#q_WeaponSubList.ID#">Delete</a>
> </td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> </td>
> </tr>
> </cfoutput>
> <tr>
> <td>&nbsp;</td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> </td>
> </tr>
> </cfloop>
> </table>
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