Re: [Semediawiki-user] [SF] values from category not alphabetically sorted

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Got Yaron's message of how to modify our code a touch to fix this; thanks,
and in our forms names are
sorted alphabetically.  When in a form I use code as

{{{field|Contact name|values from category=Contacts}}}

names are sorted alphabetically, good & proper.

In my "Contacts" template I inserted the text "[[Category:Contacts|{{{Last
Name|}}}]]" (no quotes),
and in the category "Contacts" the page titled James Bond shows up
alphabetically in the same place
as "Bond, James."  This is good & proper, a small idiot-proofing of the work
we're doing, so however
someone makes Agent 007, he lands in the same place alphabetically when one
looks at the category.

Another thing I noticed, in a form where I use the code

{{{field|Contact name|values from category=Contacts}}}

it sorts contacts alphabetically by page name, so Bond, James does not show
up in the same place as
James Bond, who shows up under letter J.

Does anyone know of a way to use "values from category" to sort on a field
of the category defined
in the template that the form uses to make a new contact (whew, complex
sentence)?

Thanks for any ideas.

Dean

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Bob MacCallum-2 wrote:
> 
> I remember that Yaron fixed this for values from concept, not that
> long ago (a month or two), maybe the problem was wider than I
> reported.
> 
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Patrick Nagel <ma...@pa...>
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> we have a couple of dropdowns in our Wiki, which get populated via the
>> "values from category" parameter. The values in the dropdown are not
>> sorted alphabetically though. It seems they are sorted by the order the
>> pages have been put in the category or something.
>>
>> Patrick.
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