the not working with virtual columns refers to automatic methods.  you
can always roll your own so to speak.  in this case, it's really just
a controller tweak to change how it grabs the records to include an
order_by or use a specific named_scope.

On May 3, 10:45 am, storitel <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm working on pretty much the same thing... but without your 18
> months' rails experience :-)
>
> afaik table-plus sort only works for columns of the model that's in
> context - so for example in mine...
>
>       <table-plus fields="user, contact.company.name, this,
> probability, created_at, start_date, state">
>
> i can sort all the lead fields, but not contact.company.name
>
> I can suggest a couple of workarounds...
>
> 1 - make a table-plus of the taskassignments rather than the leads,
> and then you can sort that by due date
> 2 - add a due_date column to your leads model and put in logic to
> update it with due date from the task (but i guess this could get
> messy)
>
> i hope this helps
> paul
>
> On 3 May, 17:29, Joe Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hello HoboUsers!
>
> > I've got about 18 months of Rails experience under my belt and I was
> > recently delighted to discover Hobo! I'm using it to develop a simple
> > CRM application to manage a client's sales pipeline. One of their
> > feature requests was to include a way to give each task in the
> > pipeline a due date and then be able to sort the leads by the next due
> > date. I've created a due_date field in the TaskAssignment table and I
> > have a function in my Lead model named next_task which returns the
> > next task for that lead. Unfortunately, I can't get the Table-Plus
> > dryml tag to sort that field.
>
> > I believe that at this point Hobo doesn't support sorting with virtual
> > attributes. Is that correct? What about the included search
> > functionality. Will that work with virtual attributes? More
> > importantly, do any of you smarties out there have a suggestion for
> > how I could implement this feature differently to achieve my desired
> > results?
>
> > Thanks guys!
>
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