Sorting dataset alphabetically doesn't appear on repeater

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Hi all,

Have searched for this issue on the forum and can’t find an exact match.

I’ve created a repeater which is synced to a dataset. Even though I’ve sorted the data in the dataset A to Z (which is how I want to displayed in the repeater), on the repeater it always displays according to the last one created in the dataset; i.e., the latest dataset entry is at the top of the repeater.

So it displays perfectly alphabetically A-Z in the dataset, but not in the actual repeater. Apologies if I’m not doing something that’s very obvious here, but I’ve tried everything (deleted and re-doing the ‘create sort’ on both sandbox and live datasets) but nothing changes the order in the actual repeater.

Thanks for any help!

Rob

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I’ve also made sure I’ve synced the sandbox to the ‘live’ dataset; which appears on the table alphabetically for a moment, but never appears alphabetically on the actual repeater.

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I have exactly the same problem. We have a repeater page which is supposed to list details of events in the order in which they occur from newest to oldest sorted by a date field in the dataset. But whatever we do, they insist on appearing in the order of creation which is a complete jumble. I have synced the sandbox and the live database, I have defined several datasets, I have reconnected it several times and nothing works. Is this actually functioning or have I just missed some glaringly obvious thing I have to do ?

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You should ask your own question instead of dredging up a year old post…

Did you set the the sort in your dataset:

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Yes. I followed the instructions to the letter. Sort Index is a numeric user-defined field to enable us to manually adjust the order.

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I solved this problem by realising you had to also click on the actual dataset icon on your page (see attached), go to ‘settings’ and then choose ‘add sort’ from there. I was always clicking on the actual repeater or the sandbox/live dataset contents pages to do this, hence it never worked


. Hope this helps.

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Hi Robert
Thank you so much for taking the time to reply. I do appreciate it.
Unfortunately I had already done that but it had no effect.
:disappointed_relieved:
I >>know<< that this is going to be something tediously trivial, so any other ideas, please feel free to share
:blush:

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Hi Robert - it WAS something tediously trivial - the original page author (not me) had put a second dataset link in right down the bottom of the page.
As the great philosopher Homer - Simpson that is - would have said:
“D’oh” :rofl: