[PJUG Javamail] JSF question making sort on tomahawk t:dataTable case-insensitive

[Michael Phoenix]

Hi Vijay,

No, our company has at least one client that doesn't allow javascript
to run on browsers on its network. Following Ken's suggestion, I was
able to resolve the problem using JSF. Thanks for the suggestion.

Mike

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Michael Phoenix
<michaelandrewphoenix at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Ken, your advice was spot on. The one thing about the
> sortPropertyName attribute is you have to point to a property in the
> java class of the objects that make up the collection being displayed
> in the data table. It is one of those rare cases where you can't use
> EL.
>
> Mike
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Ken Paulsen <Ken.Paulsen at sun.com> wrote:
>>
>> I haven't used the tomahawk components, but I'd be willing to guess that you
>> can use the t:column's "sortPropertyName" attribute to point to a "property"
>> that returns a lowercase value of the property you want to sort. For
>> example:
>>
>> <t:column ... sortPropertyName="sortContactName" ...
>>
>> In your java code:
>>
>> public String getSortContactName() {
>> return contactName.toLowerCase();
>> }
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Ken
>>
>> Michael Phoenix wrote:
>>>
>>> We are currently using JSF 1.1 for our UI and we want the table below
>>> to be able to sort alphabetically, but case-insensitive. I haven't
>>> found much with Google, so I was hoping for some help here. If you
>>> know of a good JSF forum where I would have a decent chance of getting
>>> help on this or happen any suggestions on how to approach this
>>> problem, I'd be really grateful.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>       <t:dataTable id="usersList" var="user"
>>> value="#{UsersListPage.users}"
>>>                     styleClass="scrollerTable"
>>>                     headerClass="SortedTableHeader"
>>>                     rowClasses="table_Row1,table_Row2"
>>>
>>> columnClasses="table_Column,table_Column,table_ColumnCentered"
>>>                     rowIndexVar="rowIndex"
>>>                     preserveDataModel="false"
>>>                     sortColumn="#{UsersListPage.sortColumn}"
>>>                     sortAscending="#{UsersListPage.sortAscending}"
>>>                     preserveSort="true"
>>>                     rows="20"
>>>                     width="490">
>>>           <t:column sortable="true" sortPropertyName="contactName"
>>> defaultSorted="true">
>>>              <f:facet name="header">
>>>                 <h:outputText
>>> value="#{msg.userslist_contnam_outputText_value}" id="contnam"/>
>>>              </f:facet>
>>>              <h:commandLink action="#{UsersListPage.editUser}">
>>>                 <t:updateActionListener
>>> property="#{UsersListPage.selectedUser}"
>>>                                         value="#{user}"/>
>>>                 <h:outputText value="#{user.contactName}"/>
>>>              </h:commandLink>
>>>           </t:column>
>>>           <t:column sortable="true" sortPropertyName="organization">
>>>              <f:facet name="header">
>>>                 <h:outputText
>>> value="#{msg.userslist_orgnam_outputText_value}" id="orgnam"/>
>>>              </f:facet>
>>>              <h:outputText value="#{user.organization}"/>
>>>           </t:column>
>>>           <t:column>
>>>              <h:commandButton
>>> value="#{msg.userslist_delbtn_commandButton_value}"
>>> action="#{UsersListPage.deleteUser}" id="delbtn"
>>>                               onclick="return
>>> confirm('#{msg.userslist_delbtn_commandButton_onclick}');" >
>>>                 <t:updateActionListener
>>> property="#{UsersListPage.selectedUser}" value="#{user}"/>
>>>              </h:commandButton>
>>>           </t:column>
>>>        </t:dataTable>
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