Ditto search help

I was originally trying to have an a-z search (i,e - A|B|C|D|E), but I could not work out the extenders. So now I have a Ditto call as follows

[[Ditto? &parents=`71` &depth=`2` &display=`all` &sortBy=`pagetitle` &summarize=`10` &paginate=`1` &paginateAlwaysShowLinks=`1`]]
<p>Showing <strong>[+start+]</strong> - <strong>[+stop+]</strong> of <strong>[+total+]</strong> Articles | Page <strong>[+currentPage+]</strong> of <strong>[+totalPages+]</strong></p> <div id="ditto_pages"> [+previous+] [+pages+] [+next+] </div> </div>

Firstly it lists results in reverse alphabetical order, which I would like to change. And secondly the next page link just keeps returning me to page 1. I am very new to ditto, and any help would be greatly appreciated

Replace &sortBy=`pagetitle` with &orderBy=`pagetitle ASC` (or add an ordering parameter, &sortBy=`pagetitle` &sortDir=`ASC`) to sort in ascending order.

Pagination: the Ditto call has to be uncached, i.e. [!Ditto? &parents=`71` ... !] for pagination to work.

Also, &summarize is an obsolescent parameter - in Ditto 2.1 it’s called &display.

KP
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Thanks KP52 taht works great. Is there a way to add an alphabet list to the top (A-z) and when user clicks ’A’ all pages beginning with ’A’ are shown in results, etc, etc, for the whole alphabet? I saw something on a Glossary extender filter but didn’t quite understand it

I saw your posts in the thread on Alik’s Glossary extender for Ditto, and have replied there regarding the way you hook the extender into Ditto. I should think you could use this method as it comes, with 26 Ditto calls created manually or by a loop in a wrapper snippet, but it might be expensive in terms of resources.
KP