added the ability to specify the type of column being ordered by: String, Date, Numeric.  This allows more control over the sorting.
added the ability to specify the type of column being ordered by: String, Date, Numeric.  This allows more control over the sorting.


Former-commit-id: 861eee7f8a01270af50122e050d8a8af49d50523

ks-appendium/flatpack,ks-appendium/flatpack