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Question about sorting by date

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Estimated time
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Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
php
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by reproducing the reported supersort('rsortAs', ...) calls with the combinedExhibitionEntries data and the exhibitionDate values shown in the issue. Read the existing rsortAs behavior and template examples, then confirm a working date-sorting syntax or document the limitation; no source file or test is named.

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Description

Hi,

I'm using supersort to try and sort the entries on this page:
https://catrionajeffries.com/artists/valerie-blass/exhibitions

The entries are a combined array of objects. I'm outputting each date into a data attribute on each exhibition:
Screenshot 2023-03-09 at 12 54 05 PM

I would like to order these by most recent date to oldest on the page, but I haven't figured out a way to do this yet.

Have tried various combinations of passing the date into the sort function, but nothing has worked.

{% set sortedExhibitionEntries = combinedExhibitionEntries | supersort('rsortAs', '{exhibitionDate.first.date|date}') %}

{% set sortedExhibitionEntries = combinedExhibitionEntries | supersort('rsortAs', '{{object.exhibitionDate.first.date|date}') %}}

{% set sortedExhibitionEntries = combinedExhibitionEntries | supersort('rsortAs', '{{object.exhibitionDate.date|date}') %}}

I've tried it with and without the date filter, all sorts of other syntax, but it never seems to properly sort by date.

Wondering if anybody might have any insight into the proper syntax here? exhibitionDate does exist for each object, as evidenced by the data attribute in the above screenshot.

Thanks!

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