Datatables format / Sort option is not respected in ask queries

[djflux]

Setup

• MW version: 1.25.5
• DB (MySQL etc.): MySQL 5.6.36
• PHP version: 5.6.14 (apache2handler)
• SMW version: 2.4.0-rc1
• SRF version: 2.3
• Browsers and versions (if applicable): NA

Issue

The Datatables results format does not respect the sort option set.

A demonstration is available:

Production SMW

https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Arechenberg

Sandbox SMW

https://sandbox.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Arechenberg

Here is are the ask queries I tried

Production SMW site

modified from  https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Demo:Datatables_simple_table

{{#ask:
 [[Category:Result formats]]
 [[Release status::current]]
 [[Docinfo language::en]]
 |?Has format name=Name
 |?Has description=Description
 |?Has category=Category
 |?Has component=Provided by 	
 |format=datatables
 |mainlabel=Help page
 |sort=Has category
 |order=descending
}}

Sandbox SMW

{{#ask:
 [[-Has date::+]]
 [[-Has number::+]]
 [[Category:Test]]
 |?Page author
 |?Has date
 |?Has number	
 |format=datatables
 |sort=Has number
 |order=descending
}}

Thanks for your help.

Cheers,
Andy

[kghbln]

Thanks for testing and reporting. Indeed this is a missing feature for the "datatables" format. SWM 3.0 will bring the class datatable to the "table" and "broadtable" formats (See this pull request). Result format "datatables" indeed still needs this enhancement.

[mwjames]

Hi,

Thanks for testing and reporting. Indeed this is a feature missing. SWM 3.0

I'm aware of that but as I already mentioned in #2427, I'm unable to set aside time to implement this for the SRF:DataTables format. Users are welcome to look at #2427 on how it is implemented and provide a fix for this format. Cheers

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On 5/4/17, Karsten Hoffmeyer ***@***.***> wrote: Thanks for testing and reporting. Indeed this is a feature missing. SWM 3.0 will bring the class `datatable` to the table and broadtable formats (See this [pull request](SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki#2420)). Result format "datatables" indeed still needs this enhancement. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #211 (comment)

[kghbln]

I'm aware of that but as I already mentioned in #2427

I knew about it but did not remember where you wrote it. I just cross-referenced for completeness.

[krabina]

Closing since this relates to a very old version. Please try the latest version and reopen should the problem persist.