Sorting  in Coldfusion

Are you talking about html tables on the page

Yes....

1 - create a sort function for each table
2 - each sort function use a key
3 - for the "other" table the key come from the first table
4 - for the first table the key is the order (desc or asc)
5 - each time you sort the first one, you call the sort function of the other table

function sort(table_to_sort, key) {
// sort code
}

I am a newbie to CF, if possible can u pls give me a code snippet..


Right now we have a function called sort  and we are calling this sort function  at both the tables as below:

table1:

<th class=" headline" width="2%" nowrap="nowrap" sv="c"  onclick="sort(0,document.getElementById('b1').value);"

table2:
<th class=" headline" width="2%" nowrap="nowrap" sv="c"  onclick="sort(0,document.getElementById('b1').value);"

I know your code is secret defense but, please, post more.

function for sorting is:

function sort (b_0,b_1)
            {       var current_col = this.document.getElementById("b0").value;
                  
                  if (b_0 != current_col) { b_1 = 0}
                  else {
                        if (b_1 == '0' ) { b_1 = '1'; }
                        else { b_1 = '0' ;}
                  }
                  var sortby = "'["+b_0+","+b_1+"]'";
                    
                  this.document.getElementById("b0").setAttribute("value", b_0);
                  this.document.getElementById("b1").setAttribute("value", b_1);
            }
            

And we are calling this function at both tables like below :

table1:

<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" id="bdhl" >

<th class=" headline" width="2%" nowrap="nowrap" vv="a"  onclick="sort(0,document.getElementById('b1').value);">ZIPCODE</th>

<th class=" headline" width="4%" nowrap="nowrap" vv="b"  onclick="sort(1,document.getElementById('b1').value)">ADDRESS</th>


table2:

<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" id="hefl" >

<th class=" headline" width="2%" nowrap="nowrap" vv="a"  onclick="sort(0,document.getElementById('b1').value);"> ZIPCODE</th>

<th class=" headline" width="4%" nowrap="nowrap" vv="b"  onclick="sort(1,document.getElementById('b1').value);">ADDRESS</th>


I am trying to get if user sort by table1 zipcode , sorting has to take place even for table2 zipcode ..

Thank you so much  it is working to some extent but..

When a user is sorting  table1 column1 ascending and when he is revisiting the page it is changing both the tables  to desc..


Any clue..

you're welcome.

Any clue..

no, sorry

you can use jquery tablesorter plugin, That will fix your issue, Just need to use the class and that's it, its done

http://tablesorter.com/docs/

we have tried  tablesorter but it did not work for multi-table sorting...

Can you let me know how it works..

Can anyone please help me on this...

When a user is sorting  table1 column1 ascending and when he is revisiting the page it is changing both the tables  to desc..

But for desc it is working fine...

Do I need to tweak anything here

function sort (b_0,b_1)
            {       var current_col = this.document.getElementById("b0").value;
                 
                  if (b_0 != current_col) { b_1 = 0}
                  else {
                        if (b_1 == '0' ) { b_1 = '1'; }
                        else { b_1 = '0' ;}
                  }
                  var sortby = "'["+b_0+","+b_1+"]'";
                   
                  this.document.getElementById("b0").setAttribute("value", b_0);
                  this.document.getElementById("b1").setAttribute("value", b_1);
            }