I wanted to ask if it was possible to cause a widget to sort by nested objects' properties. For example, if I had  a data source like the one below, could I sort the data source by parent.name? 

var data = [
    { student: { name: "Peter" }, 
      parent: { name: "Sally"} 
    },
    { student: { name: "Steven" }, 
      parent: { name: "Logan"} 
    },
    { student: { name: "Michael" }, 
      parent: { name: "Liz"} 
    }
];

The hierarchical data source api doesnt have anything on sorting, and the normal datasource api shows how to sort, but not for hierarchical structures. 

Thanks for help!

Hi Bryand,

Sorting by the nested object's properties is supported using the following notation:  On a side note I would recommend against using fields named "parent" as the observable objects have a method using the same name.

Regards,
Alexander Popov
Telerik