ADF Faces - how to sort a column by sub-property ?

hi,
in a "af:table", this works fine :
<af:column sortProperty="title" sortable="true">
<f:facet name="header">
<af:outputText value="Titre" />
</f:facet>
<af:outputText value="#{thisRowDoc.title}" />
</af:column>
but this doesn't :
<af:column sortProperty="facility.libelle" sortable="true">
<f:facet name="header">
<af:outputText value="Service" />
</f:facet>
<af:outputText value="#{thisRowDoc.facility.libelle}" />
</af:column>
how can i sort on a property of a property ?
thx !

Hi,
you have to consider that when loading a tile for the first time always rowloaded2 is fired (several times) and afterwards onload. Maybe rowloaded2 again afterwards. So it should work to sort in onload.
But when clicking the <back> button in the menue the order of the fired events might be different!
Do you want to sort by an unbound column which is readonly or is it also editable (see other thread)? In this case things might be much more complicate... Normally another sorting should be done in onsave event but unfortunately you don't save anything as it is unbound...
Regards,
Wolfhard

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