[TYPO3] Menu problem/bug - alternativeSortingField

[Christopher Torgalson]

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Tyler Kraft
<tyler.kraft at netefficiency.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi
>
>  I've got a menu built and it works fine for the most part. But I want to
>  use the alternativeSortingField property and it seems to be buggy. Below
>  I've copied the relevant TS (I've obviously omitted parts of it, but it
>  is valid and working).
>  (* Note : I'm building a menu of custom doctype pages we've created via
>  an extension.)
>
>      10 = HMENU
>      10{
>          special = directory
>          special.value =
>  119,197,198,199,200,201,202,203,204,205,206,207,208,209,210,211,212,213,214
>          excludeDoktypes = 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,199,254,255
>          1 = TMENU
>          1{
>              alternativeSortingField = tx_neevents_sort_date,title
>
>  What seems to be happening is that the only field it wants to sort on is
>  the title - can I not use other fields? Can I sort on custom fields? Am
>  I limited in any way to the fields I can sort on?
>
>  Likewise when I try to use either 'asc' or 'desc' with the sort it just
>  simply stops working, and I've tested it using the below setting
>
>              alternativeSortingField = title desc
>
>  So is this actually a bug or am I doing something wrong?


Just a guess: have you added "tx_neevents_sort_date" to
[FE][addRootLineFields] in the install tool? (In fact, I'm not even
positive it should be necessary…)


-- 
Christopher Torgalson
http://www.typo3apprentice.com/