Not Sorting By Date

  • Resolved Josh Fisher

    (@mrjoshfisher)


    9 years, 9 months ago

    Hello,

    Im having an issue with a table on my site, I have several dates in a column all formatted as dd/mm/yyyy and im using the code

    "aoColumnDefs": [ { "sType": "date", "aTargets": [ 3 ] } ]

    to sort it but for some reason when I click sort it sorts it in order except for one date, it’ll go

    20/09/2016
    20/08/2016
    19/09/2016

    and as we all know the 8th comes before the 9th, any reason for this ?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/

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  • Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.

    The reason for this is that this a dd/mm/yyyy date format. To sort those, please take a look at the TablePress Extension from https://tablepress.org/extensions/datatables-sorting-plugins/
    With that, you should not need that “Custom Command” either.

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter Josh Fisher

    (@mrjoshfisher)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    all the dates in the column are in the format dd/mm/yyyy and those without dates are just blank, but its still that one row with the date 20/08/2016 that comes in between the two dates, is it because there is a 0 before the month ?

    Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    no, that 0 should not be an issue.
    Can you please post a link to the page with the table where this problem happens, so that I can take a direct look? Thanks!

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter Josh Fisher

    (@mrjoshfisher)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    http://goo.gl/xFZJRo / NuclearPenguin and its New Opportunities section, deadline date column

    Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    thanks for the link! This indeed seems to be due to the date formats (dd/mm/yyyy vs. the default mm/dd/yyyy).
    Now that you have installed the Extension, let’s set the format with this “Custom Command”:

    "columnDefs": [ { "type": "date-eu", "targets": [ 2 ] } ]

    (Note that the 2 indicates the third column, as counting those starts with 0.)

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter Josh Fisher

    (@mrjoshfisher)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Using the command stops the sort function on the column :/

    Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    the problem now might be the empty values in that column. Can you maybe add a date to them for testing?

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter Josh Fisher

    (@mrjoshfisher)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Hello, added the value 00/00/0000 in the empty fields but no joy still that 20/08/2016 that comes inbetween to other dates :/

    Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    there are also “Not Specified” entries in that column that might be causing this. All cells in that column must contain a date format.

    Regards,
    Tobias

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