>It's a valid question. There is probably no one right answer. My answer is >that, if you didn't intend the compareFunction to use the field name in the >SortField, why use a SortField at all? Why not just use the top-level Sort >compareFunction.
Just continuing the discussion. I think the case here is that you have (n) fields but only one of them needed a compareFuntion. This is often the case in DataGrids where you have a bunch of standard columns that map to an object in the dataprovider and one that is derived. Mike