What happened to sort by distance from?

[boston85719]

I’m searching the forum for information on how to sort by distance from a location.

I see a lot of people struggling with it and not too much information regarding any possible solutions or any instruction on how to do it.

I came across this thread from 2016 with a screen shot of what seems to be a great solution that is no longer available for some reason

Distance sorting repeating group

Hey Community, i am in the final stages of my app so I hope I do not need to bother you any longer . I have another thing I do not understand: The sorting algorithm of a repeating group after Distance does not really work for me. What do I do wrong? In the repeating group I have: [image] It results in a repeating group like that: [image] In the right corner I display the distance from the restaurant location to the current users adress. So in theory exactly how it should be…

What happened to this feature and what has replaced it so that we can easily sort by distance? Seems like a pretty important component that should not have been scrapped.

Currently I can’t select a geographic location from my data type ( I have geolocation saved as a data field of the data type I am trying to sort )…instead the current sort options only allow me to select text fields or number fields.

[boston85719]

Never mind I found it after reading another old thread. Looks like it is available when “do a search for” and sorting on the search but not on a list of things already loaded.

Just leave this up here for anybody else who might struggle with sorting by distance from a location.

[NigelG]

@boston85719

ooks like it is available when “do a search for” and sorting on the search but not on a list of things already loaded.

Yeah, that is quite annoying.

I have a list on a datatype that I want to sort by geo but I can’t. I have to do a search, which is a PITA.

[boston85719]

I had thought that there would be an ability to do this using the :sorted by dynamic field , based on what the reference says

But it doesn’t seem to work the way I thought it would with my set up

I figured since the geographic address is ‘some other filed I defined on my type’ but no luck.

[mghatiya]

Is there a solution to this now? I am getting a list of markers from map and want to sort them by distance. So naturally, I can’t do ‘do a search for’ as my source of data is map.

How do I work around this?

[philledille]

I come from another angle. I for the first time need to sort and filter on distance and didn’t know it worked at all. So I went to sleep pondering on solutions, and woke up with an idea using a calculation on longitud and latitude.

How relieved I was to find this thread!