ORDERBY in appsheet template not ordering values properly.

[Malik786]

I am using the below expression to ORDERBY values based on the values from other child table.

It orders the resultant values incorrectly. i.e., 93 comes before 280, 94 come before 260 and so on...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Gz8-D6BHnCEaOThIh74o9bKtaY2dKmR8J8SBlOo5zE4/edit?usp=sharing 

Any piece of help will be highly appreciated.

[WillowMobileSys · Accepted solution]

The ORDERBY is not implemented correctly with a couple of issues. 

1)  It is implemented to use a LIST to perform the ordering which will not work.  I am surprised that you are not encountering a syntax error for that alone and should probably be raised to AppSheet support.  This part...[related Assessments][Total]...produces a list of [Total] values from each [related Assessments] row. 

2)  You cannot order based on a column in another table.  In the ORDERBY, you must specify a column in the Students table on which to order its rows.  If your desire is to order by the Total from the [related Assessments] list of items, then you need to add a column to the Students table (it can be a virtual column) that calculated the Total from the [related Assessments] List.  Then you can use this newly introduced column to perform the ordering on.