Sorting when iterating about jekyll-contentful-data-import

[dlitvakb]

Hi @jaybrueder,

There's the sort filter in Liquid, which allows you to sort collections by multiple keys in the objects present within that collection. For example, the following snippet orders a collection of posts by title:

{% for post in site.data.contentful.spaces.blog.posts | sort: 'title' %}
  <h1>{{post.title}}</h1>
{% endfor %}

That said, looks like your data may need some re-structuring, or you need to do some extra looping, as it looks that you're fetching the titles from objects nested in your course_data, and that's not accessible directly through the top level as my example shows.

You can learn more about Liquid filters here: https://help.shopify.com/themes/liquid/filters/array-filters

As for the ID issue, you can access it as if it were a hash key blog_post['123_my_weird_key'] instead of using the dot notation.

Cheers

[jaybrueder]

Thank you for your help!

Organising the data into one YAML file makes this problem go away.
I am sorting the data like this now. Works like a charm.

{% assign sorted = site.data.contentful.spaces.company.course | sort: 'title' %}
      
{% for topic_data in sorted %}
   {% assign title = topic_data['title'] %}
   {% assign subheadline = topic_data['subheadline'] %}
      
   {% include course.html title=title subheadline=subheadline %}
{% endfor %}

[dlitvakb]

That's great! Glad it worked out.

Cheers