Sorting of items - not based on caption

[lipisak]

Hello, I have a question or a proposal. We use this combo to be able to select multiple Enum values. In this specific case for Days of week.

We used ListDataProvider to fill in the data and also we do use translations (to czech language) for the values. Here comes the issue. This enum is sorted based on order of days in week (Mon, Tue, ...). But the translated values order doesn't correspond (created by item caption generator) with this.

Is there a possibility to sort the data based on data in ListDataProvider not on caption generator. Guess the issue is in method internalSetDataProvider(...) but I wasn't able to solve this.

Thank you

Best regards
J.

[jbreitung]

Hi,

I have the same problem. I am also adding weekdays in different languages (depending on the logged in user) to this combobox. I have the same issue as described above. Any sort of list or dataprovider does not affect the way my data is ordered when selecting values.

It would be also nice to make it possible to disable displaying already selected values not at the top of the list. This happens when I set the selected values with my code.

Thank you!

[jbreitung]

Hi again,

I forked the repository and made some small changes to the component. You are now able to set if the ComboBoxMultiselect shows selected items at the top and also if it will order set items by their caption. If both will be set to false, you will keep the order right as passed through setItems(...) method.

Look at the fork at: https://github.com/jbreitung/vaadin-combobox-multiselect

Best regards!

[lipisak]

Hi,
great job!!! Hope your pull request will be accepted as soon as possible as it will solve one of my ugly issues (I had to put prefix with number of day to day caption).

Best
J