contacts subpanel sort by account

[jasonj]

Manager asked if he could sort by Account in the contact sub panel in the target list detail view. I went in to Default.php and removed the sortable'=>false entry for account_name .. and now I can "sort" by account name ... but it ain't alphabetical... I can only assume it is sorting on Account ID or the ID of the linking table between the account and the contact... Any way I am stumped .. anybody got any ideas??????? The account name is set to sort = false in all the other contact sub panels as well .. was this a too hard basket case????
Win2003 R2
4.5.1d
Apache/2.0.59 (Win32)
PHP Version 5.1.2
SQL 2005 SP2

[svill]

Manager asked if he could sort by Account in the contact sub panel in the target list detail view. I went in to Default.php and removed the sortable'=>false entry for account_name .. and now I can "sort" by account name ... but it ain't alphabetical... I can only assume it is sorting on Account ID or the ID of the linking table between the account and the contact... Any way I am stumped .. anybody got any ideas??????? The account name is set to sort = false in all the other contact sub panels as well .. was this a too hard basket case????

5 years late and im trying to do the exact same thing, i belive it is a corner case for Accounts - Contacts, because it works with other one-to-many relationnships but because Contacts have an account_id field and a accounts_contacts many-to-many talble aswell it doesnt work and tries fetching via the many-to-many rather than the one to many.
Confusing