RT#42724: Data Usage Report - System Error on Column Sort

[freeside.git] / httemplate / search / elements / search.html

diff --git a/httemplate/search/elements/search.html b/httemplate/search/elements/search.html
index a279f53..b6ee7b3 100644 (file)
--- a/httemplate/search/elements/search.html
+++ b/httemplate/search/elements/search.html
@@ -135,8 +135,11 @@ Example:
 
     # sort, link & display properties for fields
 
-    'sort_fields' => [], #optional list of field names or SQL expressions for
-                         # sorts
+    'sort_fields' => [], #optional list of field names or SQL expressions for sorts
+
+    'order_by_sql' => {              #to keep complex SQL expressions out of cgi order_by value,
+      'fieldname' => 'sql snippet',  #  maps fields/sort_fields values to sql snippets
+    }
    
     #listref - each item is the empty string,
     #          or a listref of link and method name to append,
@@ -406,6 +409,12 @@ $order_by = $cgi->param('order_by') if $cgi->param('order_by');
 my $header = [ map { ref($_) ? $_->{'label'} : $_ } @{$opt{header}} ];
 my $rows;
 
+my ($order_by_key,$order_by_desc) = ($order_by =~ /^\s*(.*?)(\s+DESC)?\s*$/i);
+$opt{'order_by_sql'} ||= {};
+$order_by_desc ||= '';
+$order_by = $opt{'order_by_sql'}{$order_by_key} . $order_by_desc
+  if $opt{'order_by_sql'}{$order_by_key};
+
 if ( ref $query ) {
   my @query;
   if (ref($query) eq 'HASH') {