I use the EditTablePlugin to ease editing fields in a to-do list.

Additionally, the TablePlugin allows to sort the table.

Problem

Sorting does not work for the third row where I use variables to define the content of the cells.

Testcase

As defining variables here (in a bug report) does not work, you have to resort to TestTableSort if you want to reproduce the bug!

Go to TestTableSort and click on the heading Status to sort according to status.

Text	Domain	Status
a hard working	Test
f already finished	Test
h procrastination rulez	Test
d already done	Production
c not yet started	Frontend
b easily done	Backend
e easily but not started	Backend
g geeh thats hard	Backend

Definitions:

• Set WORKING =
• Set DONE =
• Set NOTSTARTED =

Try TestTableSort if you want to play around.

CC

TablePlugin strips out all html when doing a sort. So the icons are competely removed, leaving an empty string.

-- TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens - 24 Nov 2007

A solution is to retrieve the alt tag from the generated img html and to use that for sorting. When no alt tag is available use the img url.

Implemented like this.

-- TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens - 24 Nov 2007

Excellent idea. Gives the ability to control sorting of icons using the alt string. Brilliant idea.

KJL