SID-01361: ActionTrackerPlugin search sorting

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I am trying to update an actionsearch result page that we use for handling weekly reports. Up until now, we would do a simple actionsearch to look for things due on a certain date with a certain topic and present the information in a tidy little table. The search string looked like:

%ACTIONSEARCH{ due="9-Jan-2012" topic="*Weekly" sort="$who" format="|$who|$text|" header="|Name|Summary|" separator="$n" }%

We have now added a 'team' variable and want to group by team and sort by name. If I modify the actionsearch to do:

%ACTIONSEARCH{ due="9-Jan-2012" topic="*Weekly" sort="$team,$who" format="|$who|$text|" header="|Name|Summary|" separator="$n" }%

... I end up with a table with all of the results but no grouping. From my understanding of the documentation, I'd need to perform separate actionsearches, specifying the team in each of them and allowing the sort to be still on $who. I could then add headers between each result to make it look pretty, like:

CSD

%ACTIONSEARCH{ due="9-Jan-2012" topic="*Weekly" team="csd" sort="$who" format="|$who|$text|" header="|Name|Summary|" separator="$n" }%

HIS

%ACTIONSEARCH{ due="9-Jan-2012" topic="*Weekly" team="his" sort="$who" format="|$who|$text|" header="|Name|Summary|" separator="$n" }%

Problem is: if I do multiple actionsearches (there would be 12 of them, a total of around 120 results, but 12 individual searches for the teams), the web server will eventually throw a 500 error, presumably because the task is taking too long (5+ minutes).

Any ideas on how I can do this more simply? Please let me know if any more info is needed.

-- BrandonPamplin - 2011-12-27

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