Re: Searching for the end

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 21511
interpreted = N
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 records to do this? I have no idea if this is even possible other then showing the index value on the screen or dividing by it for the tables stuff. But I thought 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 =============================================== Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Searching for the end (Brian Fries 1998)
  2. Re: Searching for the end (Gary Richter 1998)
  3. Re: Searching for the end (Martin Gertz Bech 1998)
  4. Re: Searching for the end (Kenneth Grome 1998)
  5. Re: Searching for the end (Martin Gertz Bech 1998)
  6. Re: Searching for the end (Dave MacLeay 1998)
  7. Re: Searching for the end (Martin Gertz Bech 1998)
  8. Re: Searching for the end (Kenneth Grome 1998)
  9. Re: Searching for the end (Dave MacLeay 1998)
  10. Searching for the end (Martin Gertz Bech 1998)
>>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 records to do this? I have no idea if this is even possible other then showing the index value on the screen or dividing by it for the tables stuff. But I thought 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 =============================================== Gary Richter

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