How to Order PageDataCollection using a bespoke property

Jonathan Roberts

Vote:

Hi,

I am trying to Sort the order of a PageDataCollection but it is not working.

I am using the following code whare EventPriority is an Int.

PageDataCollection pages = DataFactory.Instance.FindPagesWithCriteria(PageReference.StartPage, criterias);

            // Sort the results first
            FilterPropertySort sorter = new FilterPropertySort("EventPriority", (FilterSortDirection.Ascending));
            sorter.Filter(pages);

But it does not work - can anyone help?

#152066

Edited, Aug 15, 2016 15:19

Johan Petersson

Vote:

That code looks good to me. How are you using the pages after they have been sorted? Have you debugged your code and stopped just after they have been sorted, to see if it actually worked?

#152074

Aug 15, 2016 18:22

Jonathan Roberts

Vote:

Hi,

We can't debug the site locally - it's funny - we have worked with Episerver for over 4 years and we have never been able to run it locally.

We just bind pages to the News List:

News.DataSource = pages;
            News.DataBind();

<EPiServer:NewsList runat="server" ID="News">

#152076

Aug 15, 2016 18:25

Johan Petersson

Vote:

And you're not using the sort property on the newslist webcontrol? Because that will re-sort the collection.

What happens if you change to a pagelist webcontrol instead? There might be some kind of default sorting going on in the newslist webcontrol.

#152077

Aug 15, 2016 18:31

Jonathan Roberts

Vote:

It's an odd one but I found a way to combat this issue - I have added the Sortby and SortDirection to the front end and this works.

<EPiServer:NewsList runat="server" ID="News" SortBy="EventPriority" SortDirection="Ascending">

Thanks for all your help,

Jon

#152096

Aug 16, 2016 13:27