Question

Hi,

Please see http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Sandbox/AttachmentTest?sortcol=4;table=1;up=1#sorted_table for a reference. The dates are sorted alphabetically - see attach2.txt that is attached to that topic. It doesn't work on our own TWiki deployment either but the fact that it fails on twiki.org points to a general bug rather than a config / deployment issue

I couldn't see any issues logged on the support web for this.

Anyone any ideas?

Many thanks,

Dave

Environment

-- ChrisBooth - 16 Sep 2008

Answer

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That looks like a bug indeed. Let's see how a normal table behaves:

Title	Date
MNO	06 Feb 2006 - 19:02
DEF	07 Feb 2006 - 13:23
ABC	26 May 2007 - 22:36
GHI	26 Jul 2007 - 13:23
JKL	16 Sep 2008 - 09:48

No problem here. It must be in the attachment table then.

The strange thing is that with the attachment table the url says "sortcol=4" while the sorted column is number 5.

-- ArthurClemens - 16 Sep 2008

I thought the sortcol is 0 based, i.e. Icon = 0 Attachment = 1 Action = 2 Size = 3 Date = 4

Is that right?

-- ChrisBooth - 16 Sep 2008

You are right. Confusing and not clear from the documentation. So the issue here is something else.

No, the first column has number 1. So Icon = 1.

-- ArthurClemens - 16 Sep 2008

Added one more row to this test case to show that, effectively, July comes after May.

-- RafaelAlvarez - 16 Sep 2008

Any workarounds?

-- ChrisBooth - 22 Sep 2008

I just ran into the same problem. Until I have a client willing to pay for me to look at it I'm just going to file it as a bug. M.

-- MartinCleaver - 30 Sep 2008

I've filed it as TWikibug:Item6031 but, err., Is the table above right now??

-- MartinCleaver - 30 Sep 2008

The table above is right, but the attachment table of the original bug is not.

-- ArthurClemens - 30 Sep 2008

Closing this after more than 30 days of inactivity. Please feel free to re-open if needed.

-- PeterThoeny - 07 Nov 2008