orderby not working?

Hi Pirco,

Any nesting of tags going on there? What is surrounding what you have there to create the rest of the menu?

Can you try making a new blank template and add just your exp:channel:entries tag to it.

JH

no nesting tags. I created a blank template with nothing but this code:

{exp:channel:entries channel="careers" category="19" dynamic="off" orderby="title" sort="asc"}
    <a href="http://{base_url}careers/{url_title}">{title}</a>
{/exp:channel:entries}

http://www.vacco.com/careers/test

what else could influence the sort order?

You could try ordering by another value like date or url_title. You using any third-party add-on like Structure? What version of EE are you using?

it’s v 2.4 but I would assume that sort order wouldn’t be an issue.

I can order fine by other parameters like date or custom field but both title and url_title do the same: they sort alphabetically EXCEPT for the latest three records!

no major add-on besides ‘freeform’, ‘wygwam’ and ‘SEO lite’

I’ve expanded the test page: http://www.vacco.com/careers/test

to show different results for orderby ‘date’, ‘title’ and ‘url_title’, both ascending and descending.

Can you try the channel entries tag without the category parameter?

Try turning on Output and Debugging and inspecting the query that lists those entries to see what turns up.

I would also be looking at the database to inspect those entry rows to see if there is anything different about them.

They would be my next steps

thank you for that. that’s a bit above my pay grade but my rudimentary review showed no signs of anything different for these entries in the database itself.

I do see a lot of queries (66) for this test page (which seems high) but, again, difficult for me as a front-end developer to tell what to look for. except, I do see the queries that pull these jobs and all I can see is that the ORDERBY does not include any of my specified parameters

ORDER BY c.group_id, c.parent_id, c.cat_order

perhaps that ordering is sorted somewhere else but, for now, I told my client that it looks like a bug.

thanks again for your time and help.

what’s most disconcerting is that even orderby=”date” doesn’t work. http://www.vacco.com/careers/test