Anyone know how to get the sortable wikitable to sort dates?

Question

...or is it broken?

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I don’t have an answer for you, Gilbert, but that is an excellent page!

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Thanks!

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Sorry to say this, Gilbert.

Seems WikiTree wikitables have limited capabilities. They sort only "alpha" and "numeric" fields. They don't identify dates as "date" fields.

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It should sort dates in international format. eg 2018-07-29, just by treating them as text.

The trick is to make it hide the sort key and display something else.  But I can't remember how.

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@RJ Horace

Thanks! That occurred to me too, late last night. Not happy with the format, but sorting is an important feature.

Answer 1

I fished the javascript code out of the page and discovered that the table sorting code was the same one I used for work.

The problem with my dates is that the cell had a leading and trailing space due to the way I thought you had to code tables. I was using " || " to separate the cells. Once I removed the extra spaces, it sorts as expected.

Answer 2

Try Wikipedia's help

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Sorting

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Saw that. WikiTree doesn't follow most of the nicer features available for tables.