Thanks for the responses -
The main problem is that I'm probably doing something wrong from the start, so let me provide a little more info. My member class could be sorted in the database with no problem save for one property. The membershipType property is an object. Therefore, if I want to sort on membership type I'm dealing with trying to sort an array of composed objects. Perhaps I need to ease up on the only use arrays of objects in the view? I tell you that it seems very complicated to have an entire object just for one lookup value (membershipType). Here is an example of one instance in my array of members firstName string lastName string membershipType members.membershipTypes.membershipType (example: getMembershipType().getType()=volunteer) Right now I'm returning objects to all of my tables and forms. I didn't think I was supposed to work with queries in the view, only arrays of objects. I could easily make a sortable query in the user gateway and do a query loop for my output. Is this what you are suggesting? Peter, I've looked at your IBO and have to say that I'm pretty unsure about whether or not I should be using it. I don't know enough to understand if I need it! You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, please follow the instructions at http://www.cfczone.org/listserv.cfm CFCDev is supported by: Katapult Media, Inc. We are cool code geeks looking for fun projects to rock! www.katapultmedia.com An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/cfcdev@cfczone.org