Is this safe to use sort utilities in 17.4 version

Question

Hi, 
 
 Is this safe to use sort utilities in 17.4 version ? 
 DO you recommend to use this or not ?

mayurm168 · Answer

If you don't want to get into complexity of compatibility of plugin, you can use below code. 
Here I am giving you an example to sort data based on datatype. 
Below example is of year sorting. (Integer) 
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create a rule named getYearObject 
 
code.... 
{year:ri!year} 
 
input... 
year (number integer) 
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create a parent rule named getYearObjectArray 
 
code... 
a!foreach( 
items:ri!years, 
expression:rule!getYearObject(fv!item) 
) 
 
input... 
years (number integer) multiple 
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In your master rule write below code. 
For understanding I am writing code step by step. 
 
local!yearDummyData:{2011,2012,2002,2014}, 
local!pagingInfo:a!pagingInfo(startIndex:1, batchSize:-1 sort: a!sortInfo(field: "year",ascending: true())) 
local!yearObjects:rule!getYearObjectArray(years:local!yearDummyData), 
local!sortedYears:todatasubset(local!yearObjects,local!pagingInfo), 
local!answer:index(local!sortedYears.data,"year",{}) 
 
Hope this works as standalone code. 
 
Regards, 
Mayur Mondhe