>> In my opinion, no, although it would make
retrieving lists of events
>> in a sorted order slightly easier for your template
developers, but
>> it's really not that hard to retrieve a list of all
events, then
>> sort them in your template. Perhaps there is
already a Bric-API
>> feature for sorting stories based on a custom
field? I'm not sure.
>Is it not possible to have the database sort them?
Probably, but I believe one would have to understand the
Bric database
schema to do that -- as opposed to just using the
out-of-the-box Bric
APIs -- unless there's a feature for selecting a subelement
field to
sort on that I'm not aware of.
For the NGA, I'm using database sorting, but my hacked
system uses a
separate db table for caching the schedules of all events...
probably a
lot more work than Phillip is trying to take on at this
point.
Definitely more work than sorting inside the templates.
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