[ckan-dev] Sort metadata fields.

[Joe Tsoi]

ok I had a bit more of a look and this is much easier than I had first
assumed. Any custom fields you've added as package extras will also
automatically get indexed by solr as extras_{name of your extra}. This
means you can add custom sorting on your metadata field by overriding
this block in your extension
(https://github.com/ckan/ckan/blob/master/ckan/templates/package/search.html#L29)
and adding something like

 (_('My Custom Field Ascending'), 'extras_{name of your extra} asc'),
 (_('My Custom Field Descending'), 'extras_{name of your extra} desc'),

to your template.

Hope this helps.

On 27 January 2014 12:59, Joe Tsoi <joe.tsoi at okfn.org> wrote:
> You'd probably want to add your custom field to the solr schema and
> have your plugin implement IPackageController.before_index, althougth
> I've never  had to try this myself
>
> You might also want to have your plugin implement
> IPackageController.before_search to add your custom sorting fields to
> the ui, but you can probably just get away with adding the sort
> parameter to the solr query to start with
>
> I think stats-canada has done
> this.https://github.com/open-data/ckanext-canada so you might want to
> speak to wardi on IRC, otherwise this might make a good subject for a
> tutorial.
>
> On 27 January 2014 12:34, Henrik Aagaard Sørensen <BU1G at tmf.kk.dk> wrote:
>> Thank you for the answer. I'm interested in a more custom sort, so if it
>> would be possible to add sort_order or something similar to each
>> metadata-field, it would be great? Order by alphabet etc. does not work.
>>
>>
>>
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