Date order

Hi Ruth,

thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.

The problem here is not really the date format, but that you are using multiple days (2/3) in the cells. This basically means that the JavaScript code no longer recognizes the cell as a date (it’s not as smart as a human).

The best workaround should be to add a hidden column to the table, where you add a machine-readable date in the US format, like 08/23/2017. Then, we can hide this column, but instruct the JavaScript code to use that for the sorting, instead of the nice human-readable format of the date.
This is just a bit of extra work, see e.g. https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/sorting-function-with-images/ and https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/consolidating-columns-without-changing-sorting-options/ where this approach is explained (not for dates, but images or other text, but the approach is the same).

Regards,
Tobias

Many thanks. I’ve set up the extra column in US date format and entered the code. Here is my table -https://www.myofascialrelease.co.uk/workshop-dates-2017/
but my dates are still not coming in order. I have used this code
“columnDefs”: [ { “orderData”: [ 3 ], “targets”: [ 2 ] } ]
as my hidden column is between date 2017 and cost column. I put it into the custom command in the JS entry in the edit page but I still cant get it to work. What am I doing wrong?

many thanks
Ruth

Hi Ruth,

that’s great progress! Now, it seems that you have hidden the column on the “Edit” screen (so that it appears with a red background there), right? Unfortunatley, this approach of hiding will not work here. Instead, please make the column visible again and then hide it using CSS code instead. For that, please add this to the “Custom CSS” textarea on the “Plugin Options” screen of TablePress:

.tablepress-id-1 .column-4 {
  display: none;
}

Regards,
Tobias