Uptime is not sorted correct

[emlun007]

Uptime in facts is sorted alphabetically, and hours are treated as days:

I am trying to create a class for sorting but I cannot find the right way to capture the values in ('.dataTable td'). Any suggestions?

[mterzo]

The Fact section doesn't know anything about the data it's sorting on, it's all string sort.

[emlun007]

@mterzo, I have been trying to detect and convert uptime to string and them make sorting. Something like:

day_search=/(days)/g;
str.match(day_search);
alert(parseInt(day_search,10));

function sortNumber(a,b) {
return a - b;
};

But still it doesn't work. What is wrong with the code?

[kirkins]

I have come the conclusion that @emlun007 is a troll account.

[larsnaesbye]

Nope, @emlun007 is my coworker and not a troll.

[kirkins]

Yesterday someone was asking me about a device and they didn't know the hostname/IP. But it had recently been turned on. I started trying to look for recently turned on devices but the sort doesn't actually work.

Then you get a little bit down the list and the page automatically refreshes.

I definitely think this would be a good improvement but it won't be a small patch. Fact types would need to be classified by sort type and have classes added.

I saw a PR that was trying to run regex on every fact to see if it was a type of date/time. I don't think that is a good way about going about it.

[emlun007]

@kirkins , it is definately not a small patch. I've been trying to make a class for ip addresses and it is a lot of work as I need to make changes in layout.html and marcos.html

[emlun007]

This is solved in PR 435:

#435

Closing the issue

[dal00]

Why was this never merged? :(