I’m trying to implement a table sort for a custom Drupal 9.x entity type Packet
which represents published medical literature articles which have batched together and assigned for review. Each Packet has entity references to PacketArticle
entities, and each of those has entity references to one or more Review
entities. A Review
has a reviewer (entity reference to a User
), when the review was posted, and some other fields for the meat of the review. The user should be able to sort by the packet’s name (one of the columns in the table) or by the date of the most recent review of any article in the packet (another of the columns in the table). The problem is that there is no documentation I have been able to find saying what should be given for the ‘specifier’ value in the $header
array. I tried using the $alias
variable from the $query->aggregate()
call, but that gave me an error message complaining about illegal SQL. Where is the documentation I need, please? Thanks!
TableSort with entity query aggregate

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