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Jakob Persson

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Hi, I have a strange problem ocuring when I try to use OrderBy for any given propery: The ordering is fragmented.

What I mean by that is if I OrderBy on number I get something like: 1, 2, 5, 6, 3, 4, 7, 8, 0 and then 6, 5, 2, 1, 8, 7, 4, 3, 0 for descending. It seams like the result is getting orderd by something else before ordering on the number, but I have triple-checked the request and there is only one sort object in the sort array.

query.OrderBy(arg => arg.Code);

Gives:

    [0]: "22565423125"
    [1]: "22565423216"
    [2]: "22565423236"
    [3]: "22565423294"
    [4]: "22565423130"
    [5]: "22565423140"
    [6]: "22565423291"
    [7]: "22565423297"
    [8]: "22565423614"
    [9]: "22565423622"
    [10]: "22565423627"
    [11]: "22565423647"
    [12]: "22565423231"
    [13]: "22565423285"
    [14]: "22565423637"
    [15]: "22565423642"
    [16]: "22565423120"
    [17]: "22565423221"
    [18]: "22565423226"
    [19]: "22565423288"
    [20]: "22565423300"
    [21]: "22565423135"
    [22]: "22565423211"
    [23]: "22565423652"

And

query.OrderByDescending(arg => arg.Code);

Gives:

    [0]: "22565423236"
    [1]: "22565423216"
    [2]: "22565423125"
    [3]: "22565423115"
    [4]: "22565423647"
    [5]: "22565423627"
    [6]: "22565423622"
    [7]: "22565423614"
    [8]: "22565423297"
    [9]: "22565423291"
    [10]: "22565423140"
    [11]: "22565423130"
    [12]: "22565423642"
    [13]: "22565423637"
    [14]: "22565423285"
    [15]: "22565423231"
    [16]: "22565423300"
    [17]: "22565423288"
    [18]: "22565423226"
    [19]: "22565423221"
    [20]: "22565423120"
    [21]: "22565423652"
    [22]: "22565423632"
    [23]: "22565423135"

I have tried switching indexes and still the issue remains.

I'm using Episerver.Find 13.0.1.

#191962

May 03, 2018 11:17

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I would think that is because Code field is of type string - assuming you are talking about Code property on a catalog item.

#191983

Edited, May 03, 2018 12:20

Jakob Persson

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That should still work, right?

But regardless, I have tried with decimal and int with the same result.

#192003

May 03, 2018 13:09

Jakob Persson

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I tried to OrderBy date and that seems to work.

With decmial I get:

query.OrderBy(arg => arg.ListPrice());

    [0]: 169.99
    [1]: 349.95
    [2]: 398.65
    [3]: 424.92
    [4]: 509.15
    [5]: 594.15
    [6]: 644.3
    [7]: 696.15
    [8]: 823.65
    [9]: 1184.97
    [10]: 2899.99
    [11]: 143.4
    [12]: 220.15
    [13]: 229.46
    [14]: 237.15
    [15]: 277.1
    [16]: 299.99
    [17]: 313.65
    [18]: 325.51
    [19]: 499.99
    [20]: 509.15
    [21]: 526.15
    [22]: 577.15
    [23]: 1104.15

#192009

May 03, 2018 13:29

Vote:

Got curious - did a test using Find v. 12.5.3 ( see results below). So you are right, should still work. Would file it as a bug in v. 13.0.1

By code:
10003556
10004299
10109080
10114122
10156933
10156958
10156966
10156974
10156982
10157113
10168110
10168128
10168136
10168151
10168177
10168193
10168268
10168276
10168284
10168292

#192018

May 03, 2018 15:08

Jakob Persson

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I down graded to Find v. 12.7.1 and it works.

Have now reported it to support.episerver.com

#192026

May 03, 2018 16:47

Jakob Persson

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Update: I uppgraded to Episerver.Commerce 12 and now the Ordering works... though I don't know why this effected ordering for Find.

#192053

May 04, 2018 10:20

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@Jakob: So ordering works with Commerce 12 and Episerver.Find 13.0.1?

#192055

May 04, 2018 10:38

Jakob Persson

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Yes. It did upgrade EPiServer.Find.Commerce from v. 10.2.0 to v. 11.0.0 as well.

#192056

May 04, 2018 10:40

Grzegorz Jeremias

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Hi,

Jakob did you get any answer to that from support?
It seems we have just hit into same issues with searching. For us searching by date does not work as well. Originally I thought it is just DateTime type but then realized that sorting also by other string properties added to page types does not work at all when running Find 13 (or it makes sorting somehow fragmented just like you described).
Sorting WORKS on default fields like StartPublish or Name.
I have confirmed that also trying on Alloy site.

After downgrading to version 12.7.1 it is working again, is there any bug registered by support already? and when we could expect fixing?

Br, Greg

#192233

May 11, 2018 14:06

Jakob Persson

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Hi Grzegorz,

I got it to work by upgrading Episerver.Commerce to 12 and Episerver marked my ticket as solved.

I don't think they should have done that as the reason for the issue is still unknown, but as it started working for me I didn't continue with the ticket.

#192235

May 11, 2018 14:39

Grzegorz Jeremias

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Well we do not run Commerce and similar issue is there, I created ticket for that as well

#192236

May 11, 2018 14:42

Jakob Persson

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Great! Come back with any updates as I'm (and maybe others) still interested in why this happens.

#192237

May 11, 2018 14:47

dada

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We're investigating this again.

When reproducing this we also see that it is working when downgrading from 13.01 to 12.7.1 but we also notice that it continues to work after upgrading back to 13.0.1.

We're trying to figure out why this is.

Thanks

Daniel Dahlin, Developer Support

#192334

Edited, May 15, 2018 13:48

dada

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This has been confirmed to be a bug in Find 13.01. Bug FIND-3596.

When testing locally this seems to be a possible workaround

 .OrderBy(arg => arg.Code, null, null, false);

#192566

May 18, 2018 15:08

Grzegorz Jeremias

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Hi
Fresh info about bug from support (thanks Daniel)

Hi Grzegorz,

This bug is fixed. When it's due for release it should appear here.
https://world.episerver.com/support/Bug-list/bug/FIND-3596

#193957

Jun 08, 2018 13:32

Michael Clausing

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Just wanted to bump this, as we have seen issues with orderby as well. We were able to get around the issue using the solution posted by dada.

#195469

Jul 25, 2018 17:04

Son Do

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Sorry for late comment. I also created a late blog post for this issue https://world.episerver.com/blogs/Son-Do/Dates/2018/7/sorting-issue-in-episerver-find-13-0-1/.

This issue will be released pretty soon after Find service is upgraded.

Regards,

/Son Do

#195494

Jul 26, 2018 15:23

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