Custom field sorts only as text

[aroach@…]

I've created a custom field to enable me to manually order tickets. I've used integers as the value, but it seems to be sorting as text.

For instance, the order shows up like 1, 10, 11, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Would like to be able to sort numerical values through custom fields.

[sid]

What is the type you have defined for the field in trac.ini? Looking at TracTicketsCustomFields, there is no integer type for a custom field, so the sorting you are seeing is probably the expected behavior.

A hack to get around this is to pad the field with zeros. So 01, 02, 03, ..., 10, 11.

[cboos]

More custom field types are needed.