Allow graphql queries to orderBy subfields

[riekusdn]

It would be very helpful if the orderBy in graphql queries would support the use of subfields. As far as I can tell from the documentation and my own experience, you can only order by a field or multiple fields, but not by a sub-field of, say, a Neo or Matrix field.

My use case: I'm using https://github.com/studioespresso/craft-date-range for an events related entry type. The dateRange field consists of a start and end sub-field. It seems impossible to use dateRange.end or dateRange.start in my orderBy.

[brandonkelly]

Just made this possible for Craft 5.6 (a6c770d).

If you’d like to test it out, change your craftcms/cms requirement in composer.json to:

"craftcms/cms": "5.6.x-dev as 5.6.0-alpha",

and then run composer update.

Alternatively, you could create new Preparse fields that extract the start and end values into their own (hidden) custom fields, and order by those fields instead.