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I do not understand the scenario. Could you make a screendump?

You can use Sortby= & Sortorder= in the querystrings as always. I think you can also do Sortby=field1,field2,field3.

In 8.9.1 there is a new notification: OnAfterQueryParsed that can be used. See release notes. Same release contains your request for *whatever* searches (WARNING - it is slow and bad and you do not want the feature IRL)

BR Nicolai

Hi Nicolai,

Would be great if I could do Sortby=field1,field2,field3. You said a while ago this was not possible then, but I never picked up if it is possible now

http://doc.dynamicweb.com/forum/cms-standard-features/nex-index-query-sort-by-multiple-values?M=BasicForum&PID=1605

And here's what we currently need to do to get what the customer wants. When the user wants a new sorting we have to redirect them to a new page with the proper sorting settings

http://www.screencast.com/t/hQQAkDYC

Can you confirm the comma spitted values for SortBy and SortOrder query parameters? That would be great, otherwise we might try the new notification. I'd hate to keep it as it is right now. Too complex to manage.

Best Regards,

Nuno Aguiar

Hi Nuno

Thanks - your whish was what I remembered. Just checked, and you cannot do that from QS yet... Sorry about that. It is in TFS as not done - that was what I remembered.

Thank you for the screendump - I understand your setup in the backend. But I do not understand the use case in the frontend. So I would like to see that...

Thanks, Nicolai

To control the sort order for multiple fields, would it make sense to prefix fields with a minus symbol? I think that's a common way to do it in APIs. I would prefer:

?SortBy=Field1,-Field2,Field3

over

?SortBy=Field1,Field2,Field3&SortOrder=Asc,Desc,Asc

Imar

Yes, will take that into consideration. It has just been planned for this weeks sprint.

BR Nicolai

Hi Nicolai,

I just emailed you the URL to a search results page, and a dump where you can change the sorting. A few notes about this product list

• We are listing variants
• In the template we are grouping them by Product ID (hence sorted by Name)
• We then sort them by price desc

Like many of our past projects, this is a "face-lift" of an existing website developed with another CMS platform.

Best Regards,

Nuno Aguiar

Hi Nicolai,

Did you get my email? I am curious if this made sense to you, as this implies a lot of manual work on our end and I am waiting to see if/when it can be done differently.

Best Regards,

Nuno Aguiar

Yes I did.

Just approved this feature an hour ago and it will be released with 8.9.1 hotfix later today.

It supports both ways as Imar suggests.

BR Nicolai

That is perfect 

Thank you

>> Just approved this feature an hour ago and it will be released with 8.9.1 hotfix later today.

Could it be that it didn't make this release? I can see the changes in the code in Frontend.vb but not in the decompiled assembly for this version.

Thanks,

Imar

Confirmed - it did not make the merge before hotfix release... Will get one out for you asap.