Re: Searching for the end
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texte = >>The exact thing i need to do is find the last 25 VURDERINGSNUMMER and sort>>it by date in descending order, so the last comes first>>But i can't get it to work :-{>>I think you *cannot* solve your problem until you create a field whose>value is set at the time the record is created and whose value is larger>than all the other values in the db.>>It's easy to use the [cart] tag for this task, because all you have to do>is put fieldName=[cart] into your append context, and it will>automatically create a unique value that's ALPHABETICALLY the largest>value in the database (assuming you're not passing some other cart value>to the page with the append context in it).>>Then you can do a search that retrieves all the records in the database>(neSKUdatarq=[blank]) and limits the results to 25 records per founditems>context (max=25) and sorts that field in descending order so the LAST 25>records will be the ones displayed (defieldNamesort=1).>>But right now, you don't have any field in your database that can be>sorted in descending order and still retrieve the last 25 records. And any>other sort you perform will result in having the records returned in a>different order, not in reverse database order. So it seems you need to>create a new field for the purpose of sorting in reverse-database order.>>It would be nice if PCS would consider making a new parameter that does>this for us. We have rank=off to give us our results in database order>--with no sorting at all -- but we have nothing to give us the results in>reverse-database order.>>Perhaps a parameter like dbsort=reverse might be added to the WebDNA>language, which would tell webcat to display the founditems in the>OPPOSITE order from the way they appear in the db.Super Ken, webdna expert!!!! anyway to use the index value of the recordsto do this? I have no idea if this is even possible other then showing theindex value on the screen or dividing by it for the tables stuff. But Ithought I would toss it out into the mix for your thought process.===============================================Gary Richter PanaVise Products, Inc. 7540 Colbert Dr. Reno, Nevada 89511 Ph: 702.850.2900 Fx: 702.850.2929 Email: grichter@panavise.com http://www.panavise.com===============================================
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>>The exact thing i need to do is find the last 25 VURDERINGSNUMMER and sort>>it by date in descending order, so the last comes first>>But i can't get it to work :-{>>I think you *cannot* solve your problem until you create a field whose>value is set at the time the record is created and whose value is larger>than all the other values in the db.>>It's easy to use the
[cart] tag for this task, because all you have to do>is put fieldName=
[cart] into your append context, and it will>automatically create a unique value that's ALPHABETICALLY the largest>value in the database (assuming you're not passing some other cart value>to the page with the append context in it).>>Then you can do a search that retrieves all the records in the database>(neSKUdatarq=[blank]) and limits the results to 25 records per founditems>context (max=25) and sorts that field in descending order so the LAST 25>records will be the ones displayed (defieldNamesort=1).>>But right now, you don't have any field in your database that can be>sorted in descending order and still retrieve the last 25 records. And any>other sort you perform will result in having the records returned in a>different order, not in reverse database order. So it seems you need to>create a new field for the purpose of sorting in reverse-database order.>>It would be nice if PCS would consider making a new parameter that does>this for us. We have rank=off to give us our results in database order>--with no sorting at all -- but we have nothing to give us the results in>reverse-database order.>>Perhaps a parameter like dbsort=reverse might be added to the WebDNA>language, which would tell webcat to display the founditems in the>OPPOSITE order from the way they appear in the db.Super Ken, webdna expert!!!! anyway to use the index value of the recordsto do this? I have no idea if this is even possible other then showing theindex value on the screen or dividing by it for the tables stuff. But Ithought I would toss it out into the mix for your thought process.===============================================Gary Richter PanaVise Products, Inc. 7540 Colbert Dr. Reno, Nevada 89511 Ph: 702.850.2900 Fx: 702.850.2929 Email: grichter@panavise.com http://www.panavise.com===============================================
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