Sorting by price

Question

The page in question is
http://www.georgeglazer.com/prints/art20c/menocalinv/menocalinv.html.
As we sell these items, rather than commenting them out on
the XML file, we want to continue to display them, marked as sold.
The way I handled the price at first was to use
<price>500</price> on the XML file and ${price} in the
XHTML document, with the price set to sort by number using
dsInventory.setColumnType("price", "number");. To see if I could
substitute the word "Sold" in italics for the price, I added
dsInventory.setColumnType("price", "html");. The problem was that
under the sold thumbnails what you saw was the silly-looking
"$Sold." So that's no good.
If I put the dollar sign with the numbers on the XML sheet
like this: <price>$500</price> and put {price} on the
XHTML document then I got dollar signs with prices under the items
as I wanted, and the word "Sold" with no dollar sign under the sold
ones. Now the problem was that the prices from $450 to $950 sorted
correctly, but $1200 was put before $450, because when it sorts by
HTML $1--- comes before $4--.
What I've ended up doing is using the format
<price>500</price> for the ones with prices and for the
ones that are sold, I omit that field and put
<sold><![CDATA[<em>Sold</em>]]></sold>
for the sold ones, and on the XHTML file I have "Price:
{price}{sold}" so the ones with prices say "Price: 500" and the
sold ones say "Price: Sold." Awkward, but better than $Sold.
Is there a way to get it to do exactly what I want?
Thanks,
Helen

Answer 1

Ah, that works! The only thing is that I had to change all
the divs to spans, otherwise the captions were not centering under
the images, but were coming out flush left. I'm not sure why it was
obeying all the other specs (color, font, font size) except
alignment with the div tags. But this works:
<span spry:choose="spry:choose">
<span spry:when="'{price}' == 0">Sold</span>
<span
spry:default="spry:default">${price}</span>
</span>
Thanks so much for your help!
--Helen
quote:
Originally posted by:
V1 Fusion
What i would suggest is replacing the sold with a value of 0,
and Spry:choose statement
<div spry:choose="spry:choose">
<div spry:when="'{price}' == 0">Sold</div>
<div spry:default="spry:default">${price}</div>
</div>
So u can sort on number :) and it shows sold when the value
is 0;