Title: Sorting Issue
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Sorting Issue

 *  [convergent1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/convergent1/)
 * (@convergent1)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-issue-2/)
 * I’m having trouble displaying the cfdb-datatable so that it displays the data
   in order by the submitted date column. I can see that while the page is being
   loaded, the data is in the correct sort order, however, when the page finishes
   loading, the rows get re-sorted so some other order (which I can’t figure out).
 * The shortcode has the “orderby” option, but it doesn’t seem to get applied. The
   actual shortcode used here is: [cfdb-datatable form=”Buyer Agreement” role=”Anyone”
   show=”Submitted,Name” id=”mytable” dt_options=”bJQueryUI:true,’sPaginationType’:’
   full_numbers'” orderby=”Submitted”]
 * The link to the page with CFDB is here: [http://c1dev.com/dellingco/cfdb-sort-test/](http://c1dev.com/dellingco/cfdb-sort-test/)
 * The first record should be “1/22/2015 – Denny Pearce” and the last record should
   be “10/12/2003 – Stuart Davis”, but instead it starts with “1/1/2004 – Don Credeur”
 * Any suggestions you can offer would be appreciated!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-to-database-extension/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-to-database-extension/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Michael Simpson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msimpson/)
 * (@msimpson)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-issue-2/#post-5702193)
 * Sounds like the datatable is re-sorting the data based on the text value of the
   date. You might see if there is a datatable option to turn off sorting.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-issue-2/#post-5702193)
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