Thanks for the idea.  sorting in memory is the other option I’ve considered, 
however, was hoping to get the results faster at the database end.

> On Jul 13, 2015, at 12:27 PM, Samuel Pelletier <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Calven,
> 
> There is no easy way on the database but you can add a method that returns a 
> formatted string or int and sort in memory on it.
> 
> To use an int, you take the date year*100 + month number, for a string a 
> formatter like this "yyyy-MM".
> 
> For more readable code, add an ERXKey on your entity class like this:
> public static ERXKey<String> YEAR_MONTH = new ERXKey<String>("yearMonth");
> 
> and sort like this:
> sortedRows = EntityClass.YEAR_MONTH.ascs().sorted(rowsFromDB);
> 
> BTW, if you are using the Wonder templates, your sort ordering can be created 
> like this with no strings constants:
> 
> orderings = 
> SOURCE.ascInsensitive().then(APPOINTMENT_DATE.ascInsensitive()).then(SITE.ascInsensitive());
> 
> Samuel
> 
> 
>> Le 2015-07-13 à 12:02, Calven Eggert <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> 
>> Hi, All
>> 
>> I have a fetch that sorts records by three columns where one of the columns 
>> is a date (timestamp).  Is there a way to sort the date by month & year 
>> only?  
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Calven
>> 
>> Here is the current fetch:
>> 
>>      ...
>>       EOSortOrdering sortBySource = new EOSortOrdering("source", 
>> EOSortOrdering.CompareCaseInsensitiveAscending);
>>       EOSortOrdering sortByAppt = new EOSortOrdering("appointmentDate", 
>> EOSortOrdering.CompareCaseInsensitiveAscending);
>>       EOSortOrdering sortBySite = new EOSortOrdering(“site", 
>> EOSortOrdering.CompareCaseInsensitiveAscending);
>>       NSMutableArray orderings = new NSMutableArray();
>>       orderings.addObject(sortBySource);
>>       orderings.addObject(sortByAppt);
>>       orderings.addObject(sortBySite);
>>       EOFetchSpecification spec = new EOFetchSpecification(“records", qual, 
>> orderings);
>> 
>> 
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