Sorting

From DLXS Documentation

Sorting is available in all classes and is controlled by the collmgr sortflds field. Sorting is configurable by collection in all classes.

Text Class

The possible values for sorting in Text Class are "occur", "datea", "dated", "author", "title", "freq", which correspond to the pulldown menu items: "NONE", "date ascending" ,"date descending", "author", "title" and "frequency". The menu items will appear in the order listed in the collmgr field. You must have maps for maindate, mainauthor, and maintitle to support date, author, and title sorting.

Finding Aids

The list of field abbreviations that should be provided as options for sorting. The possible values are "occur", "title", "creator", "freq" which correspond to the pulldown menu items: "NONE", "title", "creator" and "frequency". The menu items will appear in the order listed in the collmgr field.

Sorting Groups of Collections

Sorting on groups behaves differently in Image Class than it does in Text and Finding Aids Classes. I