Sorting Column in Search Container

• Write orderable and orderableProperty for column like below

<liferay-ui:search-container-column-text name="Start Date" property="startDate" orderable="true" orderableProperty="startDate"/>

•  Write render Method in controller class

@Override

public void render(RenderRequest request, RenderResponse response)

throws IOException, PortletException {

//System.out.println("hello1");

setSortParams(request);

super.render(request, response);

}

private void setSortParams(RenderRequest request) {

String jspPage = ParamUtil.getString(request, "jspPage");

//System.out.println("hello"+jspPage);

if (jspPage.equalsIgnoreCase(ProjectConstants.PAGE_PROJECT)) {

String orderByCol = ParamUtil.getString(request, "orderByCol",

"projectId");

request.setAttribute("orderByCol", orderByCol);

String orderByType = ParamUtil.getString(request, "orderByType",

"asc");

request.setAttribute("orderByType", orderByType);

//System.out.println("hello"+orderByCol+"aa"+orderByType);

}

}

• In JSP Page

List<Projects> projects = ProjectsLocalServiceUtil.getProjectses(0, ProjectsLocalServiceUtil.getProjectsesCount());

String orderByCol = (String) request.getAttribute("orderByCol"); 

String orderByType = (String) request.getAttribute("orderByType"); 

BeanComparator comp = new BeanComparator(orderByCol); 

List<Projects> projectsResults = ListUtil.copy(projects);

Collections.sort(projectsResults, comp); 

//System.out.print("column:"+orderByCol);

//System.out.print("type:"+orderByType);

if (orderByType.equalsIgnoreCase("desc")) {

Collections.reverse(projectsResults); 

}

• At Last add this attributes

<liferay-ui:search-container orderByCol="<%= orderByCol %>" orderByType="<%= orderByType %>" >

</liferay-ui:search-container>