Boy, I thought we had laid this to rest a while ago. : - )

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 3:50 PM, kevinpfromnm <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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