Spry Sorting

Question

Hello!
Is use this code in my spry xml dataset and spry table:
<div class="MainContent">
<div spry:region="dsCatalog">
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
<tr bgcolor="#CCCC99">
<th spry:sort="@id"><div align="left"
class="style2"><a
href="#">Nr</a></div></th>
<th spry:sort="date"><div align="left"
class="style2"><a
href="#">Dato</a></div></th>
<th spry:sort="Fullname"><div align="left"
class="style2"><a
href="#">Merkenavn</a></div></th>
<th spry:sort="district"><div align="left"
class="style2"><a
href="#">Distrikt</a></div></th>
<th spry:sort="score"><div align="right"
class="style2"><a
href="#">Karakter</a></div></th>
</tr>
<tr spry:repeat="dsCatalog" spry:setrow="dsCatalog"
spry:odd="odd" spry:even="even" spry:hover="hover"
spry:select="selected">
<td><div
align="left">{@id}</div></td>
<td><div
align="left">{date}</div></td>
<td><div
align="left">{Fullname}</div></td>
<td><div
align="left">{district}</div></td>
<td><div
align="right">{score}</div></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</div>
The problem I have is that the highest amount of digits I use
in the score field is 10,0 (3 digits) and all other values is 2
digits (9,5 and 8,0) and the three digit value will not sort in the
right order. I use sorting in all columns as you can see. The value
of 10,0 will always stays in bottom (ascending) or top
(descending). Do I have to use XSL to give a solution to this (and
if so, how to implement it?). Or maybe there is another solution to
this?
Thanks in advance!
E.B
Text

Answer 1

Hi E.B.,
The trouble stems from using commas instead of decimal
points.
First, by default, Spry assumes the column is text and sorts
it as such.
If you set the column to a number:
datasetname.setColumnType("columnname","number");
Spry will return [NaN} (not a number) because it can't deal
with the commas.
If you use decimals points, it will work correctly.
If you can't use decimals, the solution will have to be XSL
or otherwise.
Hope this helps.
Donald Booth
Adobe Spry Team