Can I sort by a field in the work item

[MarkGTI]

Hi All

We have a field called "Release Notes Section" which is used to group release notes in to logical areas (different from Epics and features)

Is there a way to sort and group the released notes based on this, e.g

AR
Bug ix .....
New feature ....

AP
Bug fix 1....
New feature 2...
New feature 3....

[rfennell]

I think you will have to write a custom extension that takes the complete array of WI does the filtering/grouping

Have a look at this sample as a starting point

[MarkGTI]

Thanks for quick reply. If tried that example but I get this error

Error Processing handlebars [Error: Missing helper: "each_with_sort_by_field"]

I'm guessing I put helper in wrong place: here's my template. Does the helper need to go somewhere else?

Notes for release {{releaseDetails.releaseDefinition.name}}

Release Number : {{releaseDetails.name}}
Release completed : {{releaseDetails.modifiedOn}}
Build Number: {{buildDetails.id}}
Compared Release Number : {{compareReleaseDetails.name}}
Build Trigger PR Number: {{lookup buildDetails.triggerInfo 'pr.number'}}

Builds with associated WI/CS ({{builds.length}})

{{#forEach builds}}
{{#if isFirst}}## Builds {{/if}}

• Build {{this.build.buildNumber}}
  {{/forEach}}

Work Items ({{workItems.length}})

{{#each_with_sort_by_field this.workItems "Custom.ReleaseNotesSection"}}

• **{{lookup this.fields 'Custom.ReleaseNotesSection'}}

• {{this.id}} {{lookup this.fields 'Custom.ReleaseNotesTitle'}}
• Description {{{lookup this.fields 'Custom.ReleaseNotes'}}}
  {{/each_with_sort_by_field}}

const handlebars = require("handlebars");
module.exports = {each_with_sort_by_field(array, key, opts) {
if(opts.data) {
data = handlebars.createFrame(opts.data)
}

// the sort
array = array.sort (function (a, b) {
    a = a.fields[key]
    b = b.fields[key]
    if (a > b) return 1 
    if (a == b) return 0
    if (a < b) return -1
});

// the iterator
var len = array.length;
var buffer = '';
var i = -1;

while (++i < len) {
  var item = array[i];
  data.index = i;
  item.index = i + 1;
  item.total = len;
  item.isFirst = i === 0;
  item.isLast = i === (len - 1);
  buffer += opts.fn(item, {data: data});
}
return buffer;

}}