I'm using a ComplexTableField for displaying / editing rows of data.

Clicking the column headers to sort the list breaks the CMS.

See attached screenshots.

thats typical for javascript-behaviour not being applied - do you get a javascript error when loading the cms, or after pressing the link (before the page refreshes)?

Hi Ingo,

Nope, just the usual javascript warnings.

added a ticket for it: http://open.silverstripe.com/ticket/1904 - i suspect the javascript replaces the container-div rather than all elements inside after the sorting-refresh...

How did you get the tables to sort? Is this functionality available in 2.1? I have a similar table and I'd like to know how to get it to sort alphabetically (within the cms). thank you!

have a look at http://doc.silverstripe.com/doku.php?id=tablelistfield#sorting
due to performance-considerations we can just sort on SQL columns for now (not within a dataobjectset and custom getters). $sourceSort is the 5th constructor parameter.
you can also apply a custom SQL query to all tablelistfield instances which has an ORDER BY directive.

5 months old and this isn't fixed - tell that matt to stop playing TF2!!

haha, any news on this in next version? or a workaround?

[I get the same error as the original poster]

its marked for the next minor release (2.2.3)