query operation order by

[LukePhilips]

is it possible to query a service and have it return an order set of data? it seems the result set of a query envelope is a random order. essentially the ordered attribute is a market value and I want an those points with the highest market value up until I hit the max returned results parameter. e.g. the 500 highest valued points for any given envelope.

[LukePhilips]

this is very close to my issue:
http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/2789-order-querytask-results
likewise it seems the 'order by' in the where clause works by accident. It works when only a where statement is populated and nothing else, it does not work when I enter any kind of filter geometry.

[SrinivasVinnakota]

Query operations at 10.0 and prior releases do not support ORDER BY clause.

[LukePhilips]

Query operations at 10.0 and prior releases do not support ORDER BY clause.

what's the plan going forward?

[SrinivasVinnakota]

this feature should be available at 10.1

[LukePhilips]

will I see this feature in the 10.1 beta?

[SrinivasVinnakota]

Yes, it is available in Beta 1.

[OrlandoCarvajal]

Will it be possible to use this ORDER BY parameter combined with "returnIdsOnly" so the Ids get returned in a particular order?

[SrinivasVinnakota]

Neocan,
  "orderByFields" can be used combination with "returnIdsOnly" to return object ids in the desired order.