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#1 2005-10-07 00:21:28
- nardo
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- From: tuvalahiti
- Registered: 2004-04-22
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category weighting to allow sortby
I don’t know if this is sane! or trivial or a lotta work but…
is it possible for categories to get an additional field? something like “weight” – with the ability to sortby “weight” … ?
use case: setting up a large static site, that tries to follow the basic principles of clean mean txp … articles are assigned section, parent category and sub category, but are not shown individually, just as category lists…
I think I’ve got all the menus working sweetly, all dynamically generated, so adding content in new areas is a breeze (no navs in forms to hand-edit) – but of course all lists of categories are sorted alphabetically
not a showstopper as they would say but a little control over the order of display would be good
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Re: category weighting to allow sortby
I do this by using a custom field — then I just sortby=“Custom1” (or whatever field, I renamed mine to “sort_key”)
Edit: didn’t really read the question quite right — this only works for articles, obviously, and can get very tedious, but could be hacked to produce the desired effect
Last edited by jamiew (2006-06-27 15:49:56)
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#3 2006-06-28 00:30:46
- nardo
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- From: tuvalahiti
- Registered: 2004-04-22
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Re: category weighting to allow sortby
it could work the way links work …
when adding a link, the field “Sort Value” is automatically populated with the title (thus allowing alphabetical sorting by default) … but you can go in and change that field
this’d be great with sections and categories – and I don’t think the devs are unaware of it, so no doubt it’ll come under consideration
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