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Hi,

First time using sort table and I'm not getting it to work correctly.  I'm sorting on a secondary data connection (sharepiont calendar) datasource name = Calendar

I want to sort the titles by 'Start Time'

So this is what I have

SortTable /dsname=Calendar /row=/dfs:myFields/dfs:dataFields/d:SharePointListItem_RW/d:Title compare=/dfs:myFields/dfs:dataFields/d:SharePointListItem_RW/d:EventDate

 my error code is:

Required parameter unspecified: compare. Usage is:

SortTable
[/dsname=Data Source Name]
/row=XPath to Table Row
/compare=Relative XPath to Compare Field
[/order=Sort Order (asc | desc)]
[/type=Data Type (text | number)]

 give me a hint?

Hi-

It looks like you're missing a slash before compare?

Also, this is incorrect:

 /row=/dfs:myFields/dfs:dataFields/d:SharePointListItem_RW/d:Title

You want the row parameter to point to the repeating node, so it would need to be

 /row=/dfs:myFields/dfs:dataFields/d:SharePointListItem_RW

In addition, /compare should be relative to the /row. So use:

/compare=/d:EventDate

 Hope this helps!

Hi Ernesto,

Thanks for taking a look.

My command looks like:

SortTable /dsname=Calendar /row=/dfs:myFields/dfs:dataFields/d:SharePointListItem_RW /compare=/d:EventDate

The command does run now but I dont see any change.  The table is exactly as it was.  I look at the result field but nothing is in there and the success checkbox is checked.  Where does the resulting sorted table get stored?

Thanks again,

-Bob

I suspect the problem is the slash before d:EventDate, but you could drag the QdabraRules > Error, Success and Result nodes into the canvas to get more information about whether the command is working or not.

That was it... the "/" before " /d:EventDate "

Very cool

 Thanks

ok... one more question for this thread.

 So I have the calendar items being sorted by date (Thanks again)

I want to show only the most current 5 items on the form..

I do this by adding an expression on the repeating table ( expresssion : position()>5 )

If I order=DESC then I have calendar items from too far in the future being shown and filling up those 5 spots.. ie:

May 30th Item 6

May 29th Item 5

May 29th Item 4

May 29th Item 3

May 28th Item 2

May 28th Item 1

May 27th Item -1

May 27th Item -2

May 26th Item -3

May 25th Item -4

so the top 5 here leaves out Item 1

I then decided to put a formatting rule on the repeating table that says to hide any calendar item that is <= todays date and changed the order=ASC

unfortunately the empty items (listed as negative in my example) are still counted towards the five items in my expression but just hidden and I only see one item, Item 1

Any suggestions on how to get the top 5 dates starting with todays date and sorted decending?

Thanks,

-Bob

It might be hard to achieve all of this on a single secondary data source. Have you thought of copying just the rows you need to another data source, to make things easier?

http://www.infopathdev.com/files/folders/qrules/entry58854.aspx

http://www.infopathdev.com/files/folders/qrules/entry58577.aspx

You could use one of the two methods to copy just 5 items. The document explains decrementing all the way down to 0, but you could just iterate 5 times and be done, getting that data into a second data source.

Be careful with position() and these type of things if you require browser compatibility. I've seen templates stop being browser compat because of hiding rows of a repeating table.

I was also thinking of filtering with oData, but I have never filtered on date with oData and my command seems to be falling short.

For starters I was going to fitler on a single date then expand it to greater than todays date

my command is: https://my.company.com/_vti_bin/listdata.svc/Calendar?$filter=StartTime eq 2013-03-25T10:00:00

do you think this could work?  If so, do you see the issue with my odata query?

the xml:

 <m:properties>
        <d:ContentTypeID>0x010200C4E292BDA623AC46AAB10BD6AC79D86E</d:ContentTypeID>
        <d:Title>All Hands Meeting</d:Title>
        <d:Location>Room 1B</d:Location>
        <d:StartTime m:type="Edm.DateTime">2013-03-25T10:00:00</d:StartTime>
        <d:EndTime m:type="Edm.DateTime">2013-03-25T12:30:00</d:EndTime>
        <d:DONOTUSE m:null="true" />
        <d:AllDayEvent m:type="Edm.Boolean">false</d:AllDayEvent>
        <d:Recurrence m:type="Edm.Boolean">false</d:Recurrence>
        <d:Workspace m:type="Edm.Boolean">false</d:Workspace>
        <d:CategoryValue m:null="true" />
        <d:MonthDay>Monday, March 25</d:MonthDay>
        <d:Time>10:00 AM</d:Time>
        <d:Date_Time>Monday, March 25, 10:00 AM</d:Date_Time>
        <d:Summary>All hands meeting for Fermilab employees</d:Summary>
        <d:TITLE_SUMMARY>FemiLab All Hands Meeting - All hands meeting for employees</d:TITLE_SUMMARY>
        <d:StartDate m:type="Edm.DateTime">2013-03-25T10:00:00</d:StartDate>
        <d:Id m:type="Edm.Int32">1</d:Id>
        <d:ContentType>Event</d:ContentType>
        <d:Modified m:type="Edm.DateTime">2013-03-25T14:38:03</d:Modified>
        <d:Created m:type="Edm.DateTime">2013-03-22T14:28:17</d:Created>
        <d:CreatedById m:type="Edm.Int32">55</d:CreatedById>
        <d:ModifiedById m:type="Edm.Int32">53</d:ModifiedById>
        <d:Owshiddenversion m:type="Edm.Int32">5</d:Owshiddenversion>
        <d:Version>1.0</d:Version>
        <d:Path>/Lists/Calendar</d:Path>
      </m:properties>

This poor cat.. I skinned it 100 different ways, but got my solution

https://my.company.com/_vti_bin/listdata.svc/Calendar?$top=5&$orderby=StartTime desc