Server-side DataTable Sorting in RichFaces?

I ended up doing it manually. I adding a support tag to the header text tag, like so.

I ended up doing it manually. I adding a support tag to the header text tag, like so. To get the ascending/descending arrows, I added a css class.

There is a fairly elegant solution to this solution here: livedemo.exadel.com/richfaces-demo/richf... This demo avoids using the tag.

Have a look at the "sortBy" property of "rich:columns", maybe that's what you're looking for. Richfaces Reference.

I cannot get this attribute to work consistently. Anyway he said server side sorting. Isn't rich:columns with sortBy client side sorting?

– april26 Aug 18 '09 at 17:07.

The solution provided by Sblundy is a good one. But there has to be a proper way of doing it. Server-side sorting and grouping(in case of ExtendedDatatable) is a must have feature for libraries like richfaces.

I am unable to find any help so far and I really cant believe that I am the only one trying to do server side stuff.

The functionality of sortBy is limited to client-side although it does hit the server to get the list sorted. Is there any way of overridding the server-side sort function?

Your datamodel needs to implement "Modifiable" interface. The datatable will call it's modify() method to do serverside sorting and filtering.

I had the same problem. Client-side sorting/filtering was not acceptable. Moreover, when I clicked on a column to start sorting by that column my DataScroller stopped working.In my case I was using extendedDataTable, ExtendedDataModel.

User ikren is right. Everything started working, row paging using datascroller too. Client stopped sorting and filtering by itself.

It started using model's modify method, so I could pass filters to my data provider. Ikren thank you very much!

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