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ShamilShamil 

Salesforce Knowledge: articleList sortby issue

Problem # 1 is that sortBy attribute of the articleList component stops working after a keyword is specified. For instance, the code below renders the same result regardless of the sorting method:

 

<apex:page >
	<knowledge:articleList articleVar="article"
				sortBy="title"
				keyword="yourKeyword"
			>
				<li >
				<a href="{!URLFOR($Action.KnowledgeArticle.View, article.id) + '&popup=true'}" target="_blank">
				{!article.title}</a>
				</li>
				<apex:variable var="isArticlesResult" value="true"/>
						</knowledge:articleList>
	<br/>
	<knowledge:articleList articleVar="article"
				sortBy="mostViewed"
				keyword="yourKeyword"
			>
				<li >
				<a href="{!URLFOR($Action.KnowledgeArticle.View, article.id) + '&popup=true'}" target="_blank">
				{!article.title}</a>
				</li>
				<apex:variable var="isArticlesResult" value="true"/>
			</knowledge:articleList>
	<br />
	<knowledge:articleList articleVar="article"
				sortBy="lastUpdated"
				keyword="yourKeyword"
			>
				<li >
				<a href="{!URLFOR($Action.KnowledgeArticle.View, article.id) + '&popup=true'}" target="_blank">
				{!article.title}</a>
				</li>
				<apex:variable var="isArticlesResult" value="true"/>
	</knowledge:articleList>                   
</apex:page>

 

 

Whereas if keyword is removed sorting starts working.

 

Problem # 2 is that when keyword is specified, it is unclear what sorting criteria is used (it's not one of the 3 documented)

API version used for testing: 21, 22
Best Answer chosen by Admin (Salesforce Developers) 
francoisLfrancoisL

Shamil, 

 

About problem 1, what you describe is true. This is the actual behavior. If a keyword is present, sort attribute is ignored.

 

About problem 2, when you have a keyword, the sort is by keyword relevance. 

 

I will ask to update the documentation to reflect the actual behavior. We may also think to update in the coming releases. 

 

Thanks. 

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francoisLfrancoisL

Hi Shamil, 

 

Thanks for your feedback. I don't have the answer but I will be back next week with it.

 

 
francoisLfrancoisL

Shamil, 

 

About problem 1, what you describe is true. This is the actual behavior. If a keyword is present, sort attribute is ignored.

 

About problem 2, when you have a keyword, the sort is by keyword relevance. 

 

I will ask to update the documentation to reflect the actual behavior. We may also think to update in the coming releases. 

 

Thanks. 

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ShamilShamil

Francois,

 

Thanks for your reply.

On #1, it is definitely something that many customers want to have, because it gets somewhat confusing for the end users when sorting only works without a keyword. Also, allowing other ways of sorting, such as by rating would greatly help too - there's a plenty of requests for this as well. I'm sure this all is on your internal to-do list :smileywink: and there are technical reasons for such behavior, but I just wanted to add my 2 cents.
chris_parxchris_parx
francoisL wrote:

 

About problem 2, when you have a keyword, the sort is by keyword relevance. 

 

 

I already read the doc and got the same description but I don't understand what it is meant with the "keyword relevance". What does that mean concrete? What are the criterias to be see as "related article" ?
francoisLfrancoisL

Keyword relevance means that article are sorted based on salesforce relevance algorithm.

 

salesforce relevance algorithm uses mainly search term match, popularity. 

 

You can have more details here: https://help.salesforce.com/apex/HTViewHelpDoc?id=knowledge_article_search.htm&language=en_US .