doc/bugs/map_sorts_by_pagename_and_not_title_when_show__61__title_is_used.mdwn



The [[ikiwiki/directive/map]] directive sort by pagename. That looks kind of odd, when used together with show=title. I would expect it to sort by title then.

This would be quite hard to fix. Map sorts the pages it displays by page
name, which has the happy effect of making "foo/bar" come after "foo";
which it has to do, so that it can be displayed as a child of the page
it's located in. If sorting by title, that wouldn't hold. So, map
would have to be effectively totally rewritten, to build up each group
of child pages, and then re-sort those. --[[Joey]]


Ok, you are right, that does would break the tree. This made me think that I do not
need to generate a tree for my particular use case just a list, so i thought i could use [[ikiwiki/directive/inline]] instead.
This created two new issues:


inline also does sort by pagename even when explicitly told to sort by title.


I cannot get inline to create a list when the htmltidy plugin is switched on. I have a template which is enclosed in an li tag, and i put the ul tag around the inline manually, but htmltidy breaks this. --martin


You might want to check if the [[plugins/contrib/report]] plugin solves your problem.  It can sort by title, among other things. --[[KathrynAndersen]]


See also: [[todo/sort_parameter_for_map_plugin_and_directive]] --[[smcv]]