withSort not working for pages collection about assemble.io HOT 11 CLOSED

@mattdwen @MayhemChaos I know it's been a while, but I suppose for people in the future who have arrived here like me...

Handlebars helpers can take extra arguments (specified by name) after the default ones are provided. For more info on that, search for options.hash on this page: http://handlebarsjs.com/expressions.html

The withSort helper that the assemble.io guys wrote does this as well. If you provide dir="desc" after your arguments, the loop's array will be reversed and you'll be good to go!

{{#withSort pages "data.created" dir="desc" }}
  {{#unless data.exclude}}
    <li><a href="{{data.url}}">{{data.title}}</a></li>
  {{/unless}}
{{/withSort}}

Here is the code that does it:
https://github.com/assemble/handlebars-helpers/blob/master/lib/helpers/helpers-collections.js#L279

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Refer to my 'Tip: Using the #withSort option for creating navigation menu

helpers/handlebars-helpers#200

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Try putting quotes around the field...

<ul>
    {{#withSort pages "data.date"}}
        <li>{{data.title}}</li>
    {{/withSort}}
</ul>

If this works, the docs should be updated.

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That seems to work, thanks for that, much appreciated!

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created a new issue to update docs, since this is resolve I'll go ahead and close it

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This works fine, but just sort by string, if you compare [1,2,10] output will be 1, 10, 2,

If you need to make an index, try something like a-001, a-002.

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@dvera123 thanks, good to know.

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Is there any way to do a desc sort on pages, without having to explicitly declare the collection in the Gruntfile?

E.g. It would be great if you could declare {{#withSort pages "data.date" desc}}

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closing, we can continue discussion on handlebars-helpers repo

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I tried these options to no avail..

{{#withSort pages "data.sortOrder"}}
                {{#is data.section "main"}}
                    <li{{#is ../../page.dest this.dest}} class="active"{{/is}}>
                                      <a href="{{relative ../../page.dest this.dest}}">{{data.menutitle}}</a>
                                  </li>
                {{/is}}
            {{/withSort}}

layout: home.hbs
title: What is ZMIX?
section: main
sortOrder: a-000
---

Help?

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@webercoder Great!

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