Re: [Semediawiki-user] Sorting issues with number-type properties

[Yaron K. <ya...@gm...>]

I don't know if this is the cause of anything, but "page number" is not a
type - you shouldn't set any property to that.

-Yaron


On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Alex M. Hendler
<amh...@on...>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On SMWHalo 1.5.1_0, SMW 1.5.1_1, MW 1.15.5, I'm trying to sort query
> results by a number-type property, but I am finding that it sorts as if
> the property is a string, but in a completely useless order, e.g., instead
> of 677, 678, 679, 680 ... 692, I get 677, 682, 687, 692, 678, 683, 688,
> 679, 684...
>
> I had thought the problem might be with the property being called "page",
> so I changed it to "page number" ran a data refresh, and I still see the
> issue (but the order is slightly different; now it starts with 681, 686,
> 691, 680, etc).
>
> When the results are placed into a table, they also appear in this bad
> order, but can be sorted properly with the column header - however, this
> is not an option, as the display must be in an embedded format.
>
> If it matters, the page number corresponds to the last element of a page
> name in a system that uses subpages.
>
> I have set $smwgQRandSortingSupport = false;
>
> When I do not request sorting by this property, the pages are sorted in
> the appropriate order, however, I know that this will no longer be true
> when there are different numbers of digits (the infamous 1, 10, 100
> "sort" order).
>
> Any suggestions/thoughts (aside from converting to a string and adding
> leading zeros)?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
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