Sorting on column age does not work....... Will it be fixed?

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I used to be able to sort results on the age column. The only way I can get near the top of the list.

Now the sort changes the order but in a random kind of way.

It would be nice if it worked like before.

Anyone else had this problem?

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Hi @Andrew_M_LD Andrew - welcome to the forums!

Iā€™m sure Iā€™ve used it in the distant past and it worked, but Iā€™m now getting the same result as you.

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Me too, Iā€™ve let Flint know.

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Iā€™ve created a ticket and given it to the team. Itā€™ll be fixed in time, though I canā€™t say for certain when.

Thanks for reporting!

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Thanks! Hereā€™s hoping

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Still not able to sort on age. The sort link button works but just produces a random order.

A fix would be appreciated. Or is too difficult with the Juniors, Masters, Vets etc categories as well as the age numbers?

Thanks in advanceā€¦

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Bumping this.

Just like IRL, I look to how I performed against people in my age group because I have little chance of competing against the entire Zwift field, especially as a light rider forced into cat A.

As an extension, I think the age groups should be narrowed to 5-year increments. And are the age group names standard? Do we need the names at all?

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This still appears not to be fixed. Is the ticket still open?

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Donā€™t know about the ticket Iā€™m afraid. Feeble support from Zwift.

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Iā€™ll have a chat with our Zwiftpower developer (who has been working on projects of a higher priority than whether or not you can sort by age).

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Had a chat, heā€™s going to try and see if he can look into it next week.

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Coming back to this, thereā€™s a technical reason why this is a considerable amount of work, which weā€™re currently not able to prioritise based on other things that weā€™re working on.

Reading between the lines, this isnā€™t something that weā€™re likely to do.

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No surprise there! The functionality was originally built in and was removed, presumably as part of an ā€˜upgradeā€™ ā€¦ haha. Strangely enough old folk like me are more interested in age ranked achievements than just knowing how quickly our powers are declining. I voted with my feet and stopped my Zwift subscription a few months ago.

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Because you couldnā€™t filter by age?

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Probably not the whole story but a significant demotivator

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Hi James,

Any update on mult-filter or multi-sort and especially sort by age?

Today I filtered the Tour of Watopia 2023 | Stage 5 results by the category level that I entered (B). As indicated in prior posts, sort on age reorders the results but in no discernable pattern.

Boy, Iā€™d sure love to know how I fared in that race, filtered by category (B) and sorted by age and time.

Iā€™d be happy to contribute to a solution. May I have a discussion with the developer? No matter the technology stack this seems to be an easily solved problem by way of widget or custom code (either of which Iā€™d be happy to supply if it is a reasonable cost).

Best,

Raymond

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Seriously, in real life, we have age categories for this very purpose. Itā€™s a stretch for many juniors to compete against adults. Itā€™s a stretch for many 50+ folks to compete against younger adults. It would be nice to filter the results by age. It is pretty surprising to hear that you once could do what should be a very simple task, but the functionality somehow got broken in some update, and it is now somehow too hard to fix. Itā€™s pretty often not one single big thing that drives people away. Itā€™s pretty often a bunch of little things.

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Nice to know that I am not alone in thinking that an age sort would be nice. And it used to be there.

I have had to return to Zwift following an injury. But I do resent paying Ā£12.99 a month to a very wealthy outfit that canā€™t sort a table of data.

A benchmark of feebleness! Unresolved for two years - except for James saying that Zwift couldnā€™t be bothered.

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Weā€™re unlikely to make any meaningful changes in ZwiftPower (aside from the category work we just did) as we look to move it to zwift.com

Will definitely pass on feedback for that display though.

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I assume the main difficulty in the sorting is that the ridersā€™ actual age is not available in the result list, only the age category. If you sort by the age category alphabetically, then the results come in a weird order: 50+, 60+, Jnr, Mas, Snr, Vet.

If you still wanted to sort the results in that order, this piece of code would fix the table:

var table = $('#table_event_results_final').DataTable();
table.context[0].aoData.forEach(row => { row._aSortData[21] = row._aFilterData[21]})
table.context[0].aoColumns[21].type = 'string-pre'
table.context[0].aoColumns[21]._sManualType = 'string-pre'
table.context[0].aoColumns[21].sType = 'string-pre'

After executing that code, sorting will work.

Note that if you want to see only the results for a specific age category, you can simply use the search feature for that. So if you want to see just riders in the 50+ category, just enter ā€œ50+ā€ in the search box above the results list.

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