WebContent - sorting by structure fields

[Vitaliy Koshelenko, modificado hace 10 años.]

Hi, all.

Is it possible to sort WebContents by the values of it's structure fields?
(for example, if I create structure 'Product' with fields 'name', 'description', and then create some WebContent of this structure, may I sort these WebContents by 'name' field?)
I know, that content is stored as xml, and it's not possible to make sorting with an sql query, but may be there are some other solutions for this ?

Thanks, Vitaliy

[Milen Dyankov, modificado hace 10 años.]

You mean sort the list in WCM section in ControlPanel or in your custom portlet?
Both are possible with some customizations just the approach is a bit different.

[Vitaliy Koshelenko, modificado hace 10 años.]

In my custom portlet. Any ideas?

[Milen Dyankov, modificado hace 10 años.]

All custom fields are stored in the index together with the article. Thus it should be possible to simply use one of the search methods in JournalArticleLocalServiceUtil that use the index and provide appropriate sort options.