ftl Sorting

[jbarrett]

I have a template that lists out children of a certain type. 

<#list space.childrenByXPath[".//*[subtypeOf('msi:event')]"] as child>

Is there a way to order the results.  I need to order the results by a custom property in the display. 

Could there be a way to do it with a Lucene query?

Thanks

Josh

[kevinr]

Yes you can sort using the FreeMarker built-in:

<#list space.childrenByXPath[".//*[subtypeOf('msi:event')]"]?sort_by(['properties', 'msi:myproperty']) as child> 
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Replacing 'msi:myproperty' with your custom property name.

Thanks,

Kevin

[kevinr]

I should also mention that sorting is possible using our Lucene integration - but it is not exposed in the FreeMarker API yet.

Thanks,

Kevin

[jbarrett]

Thanks!  Works great!

How would I reverse these results?

Thanks,

Josh

[mikef]

Use ?reverse e.g.

<#list space.childrenByXPath[".//*[subtypeOf('msi:event')]"]?sort_by(['properties', 'msi:myproperty'])?reverse as child>

Regards

Mike