WorkSite API. Can you sort the history list?

Is it possible to sort the history list generated by the API by Date?

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This is the code I am currently using to display the list, but I cannot figure out how to tell it to sort the list by date.


‘ Iterate through the HistoryList
For i2 = 1 To item.Versions.Count
     objDocVersion = item.Versions.ItemByIndex(i2)
     For i = 1 To objDocVersion.HistoryList.Count
          objDocHistory = objDocVersion.HistoryList.ItemByIndex(i)
          ' Define the properties for each DocumentHistory object in list
          'Output list here
     Next i
Next i2

jny

If you're using the 8.x Object Model, you may implement the IManObjectSort Object to sort your collection.

There is a C# code example on how to use this sorter object which is available in the WorkSite iToolkit 8.0 and forwards. This code example is in the Sorter.cs of the SDK80SampleApp.sln. You will find it by navigating to the 'SampleAppsFor8.0' folder under your SDK installed path.

abRussB

Wow. All that code to sort by date??

Sure would be nice if they could add this to the next version.

myObject.sortBy(thisField)

dopey

Hmm. Looking at IManHistoryList, it doesn't seem to be sortable. A peccadillo. I think that IManHistoryList2 would be an excellent addition to a future release...

Sort methods aren't really that complicated - all you really need to do is find out if this one is less than that one. The problems are: 1. it's COM, so there's some COMmish overhead, etc, 2. you are writing against code you've never seen, written by people you've never met (a seedy lot, I might add), 3. collections might be polymorphic, not history lists but maybe searches, and 4. if the app crashes because you didn't handle something, your customers come to you.

* okay, they aren't really seedy.