[Zope] Sorting catalog reports

[Chris Fassnacht]

Martijn,

Thanks very much, that did the trick!

Chris

 
> The sort attribute only accepts a the name of the attribute 
> on which to 
> sort. It is not an expression, and therefore not dynamic. In 
> your case, 
> Zope will try and sort on the 'sortkey' attribute, which does 
> not exist, 
> hence the AttributeError.
> 
> However, ZCatalog does accept a 'sort-on' attribute. If that 
> variable is 
> present in the REQUEST object, or is passed to the 
> searchResults method of 
> the catalog, the resultset will be sorted on the index 
> specified in that 
> attribute. Note that you can only sort on attributes that are 
> indexed, you 
> cannot sort on any of the stored schema data.
> 
> Also note that this feature is partly broken in Zope 2.0, but 
> is fixed for 
> the next release of Zope. The fix is small: at line 411 of Catalog.py 
> (lib/python/Products/ZCatalog), change sort_index.items() into 
> sort_index._index.items().
> 
> 
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