[Zope] dynamic sort=

[D. Rick Anderson]

That did it! Thank you!

I have very few compelling reasons to change to ZPT at this point, and 
it would actually be a small disaster to attempt it. I have 6 very large 
reporting sites built entirely on DTML that have been running for over 2 
years now that way. It would be a major undertaking to overhaul them to 
ZPT, not to mention the fact that there would be a learning curve while 
I was trying to figure out how to get all of what I had working to work 
with templates.

The other issue is that neither myself, nor our web designer uses a GUI 
page builder. He hand codes everything right through the Zope interface, 
as do I. I've learned to keep the business logic well seperated from the 
design elements, so I really don't have a strong reason to jump, 
especially since I'm so comfortable with DTML.

Thanks for your help,

Rick


Stefan H. Holek wrote:

> According to the documentation* what you want is 'sort_expr='. I do 
> however recommend you stop using DTML alltogether.
>
> Stefan
>
> *<http://zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/2_6Edition/AppendixA.stx>
>
>
>
> --On Montag, 13. Oktober 2003 10:16 -0700 "D. Rick Anderson" 
> <ruger at acsnv.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to do a dynamic sort= on a dtml-in on a list of
>> dictionaries?
>>
>> like:
>>
>> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('sortby', 'firstname')">
>>
>> <dtml-in "queryname_py" mapped sort=_['sortby']>
>> etc...
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> The time has come to start talking about whether the emperor is as well
> dressed as we are supposed to think he is.               /Pete McBreen/
>