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Orderby on annotated fields via the REST API

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Posted on by Andy Whitworth 25

Hi there,

I need to be able to apply an orderby clause to an annotated field (i.e. order on the "Case Created" string instead of the number 4 for the statuscode field on an incident entity).

Is this possible via the REST API?

When I attempt to use statuscode@OData.Community.Display.V1.FormattedValue in the orderby I get the following error:

{"error":{"code":"0x0","message":"Syntax error at position 54 in 'statuscode@OData.Community.Display.V1.FormattedValue asc'."}}

Please note the fields could be Option Sets or Lookup fields.

I might be able to use expand on a Lookup field but I don't believe this works on Option Sets?

Regards,

Andy

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    a33ik 84,331 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Hello Andy,

    I'm afraid that won't work this way. What you can do is to get the data and sort it afterward.

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    Andy Whitworth 25 on at

    Thanks for the quick response Andrew.

    Is there no other way of doing this?

    It would be very inefficient to download a large number (could be 100s or 1000s) of incidents to then perform client-side sorting on them and would ultimately lead to a poor end-user experience in our web application.

    Regards,

    Andy

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    a33ik 84,331 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Andy,

    I can just second what I said. You can't do it in a direct way.

    But if you're ok with alternatives - you can store the label of the optionset in some text field and do the sorting by it.

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