View source for Issue:'tablesortcol' ignored when surrogate template used.

{{Issue
 |Type        = Bug
 |Extension   = DPL
 |Version     = 1.7.4
 |Description = 'tablesortcol' ignored when surrogate template used
 |Status      = open / answered
}}

== Problem ==
The table appears to be generated sorted first by article, then by content.

=== Possible alternative cause ===
Given the test case I used, it's also possible that the actual cause is that the designated column contains a link; the sort is then based on the name of the page linked to, rather than the link's display text.  IMHO, the latter would be more desirable.

== Reply ==
Currently the sort is based on the content of the selected column - whatever that may be. No further "intelligence" is applied. But you can add ''hidden text within html-comments'' at the very beginning of the content of the column - so you can define your sort criteria and hide them to the user. See [[tablesortcol]].

I think this is sufficient as a solution to the problem.

As an alternative you can use the trick described in [[DPL Example 023]] which works quite nicely if you apply the small patch to the sort script as described.

[[User:Gero|Gero]] 10:47, 3 July 2009 (UTC)