Added sortable_tables.js Overrides for Column # and Sort Order

[Christopher Mann]

Hi Folks,

I added a way to specify the default sort column and order. The docs
don't seem to indicate any prescribed way to do this, and looking
through the source code I see the initial table sort was always on
column 0, forward order.

So add this to your HTML:

<div id="sortable_table_sortkey" style="display: none;">1</div>
<div id="sortable_table_sortorder" style="display: none;">reverse</
div>

Then search for this in sortable_tables.js (around line 116):

// do initial sort on first column
this.drawSortedRows(this.sortkey, true, false);

And replace with:

// do initial sort on first column
// this.drawSortedRows(this.sortkey, true, false);

// use the global sortkey by default
var initial_sortkey = this.sortkey;

// if a sortkey is specified use that instead
if (specified_sortkey =
document.getElementById("sortable_table_sortkey"))
{
initial_sortkey = specified_sortkey.innerHTML;
};

// use 'true' (forward) sort order by default
var initial_sortorder = true;

// if a sortorder is specified use that instead
if (specified_sortorder =
document.getElementById("sortable_table_sortorder"))
{
if (specified_sortorder.innerHTML == "reverse")
{
initial_sortorder = false;
}
else if (specified_sortorder.innerHTML == "forward")
{
initial_sortorder = true;
}
else
{
initial_sortorder = false;
};
};

this.drawSortedRows(initial_sortkey, initial_sortorder,
false);


Hope that helps some people.

Thanks for developing MochiKit!