Since I was looking for this and couldn’t find any solution to it… I decide to create a custom script that get the user score of a field and calculates the ranking position based on this score.
I´ll try to explain how it works in detail below!
You gotta have a field in your table that has the user score.
Create an automation to run a script everytime this field gets update.
On the script code, you should do as follows:
// Get your Table
let table = base.getTable("table_name");
// Get the score field of your table
let queryScore = await table.selectRecordsAsync({"score_field"]});
// Save these records in a variable
let records = queryScore.records;
//Define an array of Records
let rankItems = [];
// Define the score variable
let score
//Set score variable as a number
score = Number(score)
//Set the initial position to 0 since its the first position of the array
let position = 0
//Create a function that gets the score value for each record and push into your array of records
records.forEach((record) => {
// Get each record score value
score = record.getCellValue('score');
//Get each record id
let recId = record.id
// Save this record into your array
rankItems.push({recId, score});
});
// Sort records in the array by its score value
rankItems.sort(function(a, b){
return b.score - a.score;
});
//Create a function that update each record
rankItems.forEach((rankItem) => {
//set each record id into a variable
let recordId = rankItem.recId
//Update record position on your table
table.updateRecordAsync(recordId, {
"position" : position
})
//Add 1 to position so it goes to the next record of the array
position++
});
I guess this is it. Pretty simple and straightforward! Just folow instructions on the code comments!
The script in this thread updates records one at a time, which is not best practice. The other thread I linked to in my first reply shows a simpler solution less likely to run into runtime errors (it makes record updates in batches).
Amazing… I missed your note related to the group path and was struggling to set this up for absolute ranking. Thanks for pushing me to look back at your original response and try again, it worked beautifully!
This looks awesome but I can’t get it to work. Should this basically be a cut and paste job while plugging in “table_name” and “score_field”? Or is there some other customization that needs to happen?
