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Lachlan

Hi there Haira Dar you are able to enable the marketplace via your workspace settings -

Thank you! I just enabled it. A lot has changed in Xano since the last time I used it. Thanks again!

I'm trying to pull my workspace to my IDE, but it can't pull custom functions. I've used the vscode extension, and the xano cli but it's not letting me pull the functions nor export it.

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Chris Coleman

Hey, Anthony. Are you still seeing an issue here? Make sure that the functions have a published version, and that you're running the latest CLI using xano update

Hi,

I am trying to sort a field in a nested addon - as below

I want to sort this by event_sequence. I have watched the video here. This is my function -

Xanoscript -

query getOrderDetails_0 verb=GET {
  api_group = "shipogogo"

  input {
    int order_id?
  }

  stack {
    db.query sgogoOrders {
      where = $db.sgogoOrders.id == $input.order_id
      return = {type: "list"}
      addon = [
        {
          name : "orders_to_shipments"
          input: {sgogoorders_id: $output.id}
          addon: [
            {
              name : "shipments_to_events"
              input: {sgogoshipments_id: $output.id}
              as   : "_shipments_to_events"
            }
            {
              name : "shipments_to_couriers"
              input: {sgogoCouriers_id: $output.sgogocouriers_id}
              as   : "_shipments_to_couriers"
            }
          ]
          as   : "_orders_to_shipments"
        }
      ]
    } as $sgogoOrders1
  
    var $sort_sequence {
      value = $sgogoOrders1
        |set:$sgogoOrders1._orders_to_shipments._shipments_to_events:"$$|sort:event_sequence"
    }
  }

  response = $sgogoOrders1
}

and here is the error

I also tried a sort -

query getOrderDetails_0 verb=GET {
  api_group = "shipogogo"

  input {
    int order_id?
  }

  stack {
    db.query sgogoOrders {
      where = $db.sgogoOrders.id == $input.order_id
      return = {type: "list"}
      addon = [
        {
          name : "orders_to_shipments"
          input: {sgogoorders_id: $output.id}
          addon: [
            {
              name : "shipments_to_events"
              input: {sgogoshipments_id: $output.id}
              as   : "_shipments_to_events"
            }
            {
              name : "shipments_to_couriers"
              input: {sgogoCouriers_id: $output.sgogocouriers_id}
              as   : "_shipments_to_couriers"
            }
          ]
          as   : "_orders_to_shipments"
        }
      ]
    } as $sgogoOrders1
  
    !var $sort_sequence {
      value = $sgogoOrders1
        |set:$sgogoOrders1._orders_to_shipments._shipments_to_events:"$$|sort:event_sequence"
    }
  
    var $sort_sequence {
      value = $sgogoOrders1
        |sort:$sgogoOrders1._orders_to_shipments._shipments_to_events.event_sequence:"itext":true
    }
  }

  response = $sgogoOrders1
}

but got this error -

I would appreciate any assistance.

Thanks

Steve

Working with APIs
Chris Coleman

Hey, Steve. Can you just apply the sort in the add on directly? Would be better than a separate step. Head to the Addons section from the left-hand nav under Database and you can edit the actual query that runs.

Hey

I’m trying to figure out the best AI-assisted development setup for working with Xano and would love to hear what other developers are doing.

For those using Cursor or VS Code with AI tools:

  • Are you mainly using the Xano MCP setup?

  • Or is the VS Code extension enough?

  • How are you structuring your workflow with AI agents?

  • Is GitHub part of your setup for versioning/prompts/workflows, or are you mostly working directly against Xano?

  • Any best practices for documentation/context management so the AI actually understands your backend structure?

Would appreciate screenshots, stack examples, or “this is what finally worked for me” type replies

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