SortBy

Description

The SortBy macro will take a wiki table of data and sort it by the criteria you specify, similar to the functionality you’d expect from a spreadsheet program. This macro can be useful for such tasks as building internal phone lists, etc.

Download & Release Notes

Usage

[[SortBy(page, num_headers, column, sort_type [,othercolumn, sort_type]...)]]

Example

Sorting a phone list:

The following example will take the 'PhonelistData' from another page and sort it <<SortBy(PhoneListData,1,1,alpha)>>

• Name	Email	Phone
  Bill	bill@example.com	x.456
  Carl	carl@example.com	x.234
  Albert	albert@example.com	x.123

becomes...

• Name	Email	Phone
  Albert	albert@example.com	x.123
  Bill	bill@example.com	x.456
  Carl	carl@example.com	x.234

Copyright

LaneRettig

License

Bugs

• The macro cannot handle unicode, when processing a german umlaut like äöü i get the following error in MoinMoin Version 1.5.8

UnicodeDecodeError 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 46: ordinal not in range(128)

Discussion

• See also FeatureRequests/SortableTables.