Controlling output order: Difference between revisions

In some cases, this is not sufficient, however. Think of the following example: You create a list of pages which use a certain template. You want to show the value of the first parameter each page uses when calling that template. This can easily be done with the {{DPL3DPL|include}} feature of DPL. If you now wanted the output to be sorted by the value of that parameter, DPL could not help because it had to analyze all articles before finding those parameter values.

But there is another way: Create a ''sortable wiki table'' (using the {{DPL3DPL|table}} option of DPL with 'class=sortable') and you can click on the column headings to sort your output accordingly. However, the initial order shown in that table will still be the order in which DPL parsed the wiki pages (usually an alphabetic order of the page names).

Using a handful of javascript lines, you can sort a wikitable ''on pageLoad'' by any column. You must insert that javascript code AT THE END of your page :

Prior to version 1.16 of MediaWiki, ''wikibits.js'' was usuallytypically called at the end of a page and performed ''sortables_init()''. Calling it explicitly did not result in it being recognized, but rather resulted in adding a second set of sort link buttons.

Note: A very special (proprietory) function can be used to sort card suit symbols according to the rank of suits that is used in the card game of bridge (this cannot be done by standard collating sequences). To trigger this function, set <code>ordercollation=bridge</code>.

If you use a name for the first time, you should make sure that it is correctlyspelled speltcorrectly. Otherwise, you will see a SQL error message.

For case insensitivity during the ''selection'' of articles, see {{DPL3DPL|ignorecase}}.