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Custom Data Group - Multiple records - Sorting ?
November 01, 2009, 12:21:03 pm
Could someone give me a hint how to set the order of multiple records of a custom data group?
I tried to fix it in the template (CRM/Custom/Form/CustomData.tpl) but don't exactly know how to apply sorting.
It concerns records with also a date field. I'd like to order the records on this date field.

Hope somebody can gives a pointer, Thanks in advance!

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Re: Custom Data Group - Multiple records - Sorting ?
November 01, 2009, 02:09:43 pm

check:

You will need to do this via a hook

http://svn.civicrm.org/sfschool/trunk/drupal/sfschool/sfschool.module

specifically function sfschool_civicrm_pageRun

the else clause where the customData is rendered. I sort the custom data outside of civicrm in a specific order

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Re: Custom Data Group - Multiple records - Sorting ?
November 02, 2009, 11:03:55 am
Thanks, i'll look into it!

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Re: Custom Data Group - Multiple records - Sorting ?
February 03, 2010, 07:56:46 am
I just installed 3.1 and started thinking my way through the data structure needed for our purposes (a multi-partner community initiative).

One issue I quickly ran into is the inability to sort i.e. a multi-record custom group consisting of a date and note field per record. On part of the effort in our initiative is around qualitative research and our team wanted to keep field notes in CiviCRM in a separate tab.

Naturally over time as more notes are entered people want to be able to first of all display the newest notes at the top automatically. Export of the data also is an open question.

Most of my issues are similar to the ones referenced in http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php?topic=6441.0 - Is it expected that any functionality like this will be available in future releases? We do not have a programmer on hand regularly so hooks are currently beyond me.

Any help would be much appreciated. Sebastian

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Re: Custom Data Group - Multiple records - Sorting ?
February 03, 2010, 08:31:53 am

extending that functionality is not part of 3.2 (which is fairly packed with features/bugfixes already). you might want to consider hiring someone from http://civicrm.org/professional/ to write the necessary code. I suspect you can do the below with hooks and template customization and use the jQuery data table wizard for nice sorting etc

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Re: Custom Data Group - Multiple records - Sorting ?
February 03, 2010, 12:30:41 pm
Would it be worth thinking around the idea of doing the case notes in drupal as a content type and using Views to give you the sorting option etc
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