React-bootstrap-table2: Sort by different value than formatter returns

Created on 3 Sep 2019 · 4Comments · Source: react-bootstrap-table/react-bootstrap-table2

Hello,

Is it somehow possible to change the sorted value of a column ? I use a column formatter which returns html but need to sort for a specific value inside of that. Something similar to filterValue option (sortValue) would be awesome.
```
{
dataField: 'versionList',
text: 'Versionen',
formatter: (cellContent, row) => {
return

sortedText ....

;
},
sort: true
}

help wanted sort

Source

fabianbloching

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@fabianbloching I will implement it soon, thanks!

AllenFang on 7 Sep 2019

RELEASE NOTE

This issue was fixed, please upgrade all the packages listed in above

Now, you can use sortValue
https://react-bootstrap-table.github.io/react-bootstrap-table2/docs/column-props.html#columnsortvalue-function

AllenFang on 8 Sep 2019

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:heart: thank you

fabianbloching on 24 Sep 2019

formatter is meant to change the HTML output that goes into the actual <table>.

It seems un-intuitive to me that it also mangles the actual internal data that is being passed around in the library.

As a user, I would expect that formatter doesnt mangle my data. Why should I have to add another sortValue? This solution seems unintuitive, and it does not scale. If I have to add sortValue to any sortable column that has custom formatting, that that means I have to do it for _almost everything_, as formatter is quite frequently used.