glz_custom_fields

philwareham · 2011-02-25 09:25:35

@liamdempsey

I think you need to specify if you want the sort in ascending or descending order too, so for example…

sort="custom_13 asc"

Also, depending on how many articles you plan to have in your list, you may want to put a leading zero on your numbers. I think currently your priorities would go 1,10,11,2,3 etc. With a leading zero it would be 01,02,03,10,11.

Last edited by philwareham (2011-02-25 09:25:44)

liamdempsey · 2011-02-25 12:37:19

@philwareham

Thanks for the advice and the quick reply! I tried adding both the ‘asc’ and the leading zero … alas to no avail. It’s still not ordering the display of the custom articles in the hoped for way.

philwareham · 2011-02-25 12:41:56

@liamdempsey

That’s strange, I use a similar method for article priority sorting on one of my site, as follows…

<txp:article_custom form="your_form" sort="custom_13 asc" section="your_section" limit="999" />

uli · 2011-02-25 12:58:34

For much easier sorting than by adding numbers in form fields I’d recommend stm_article_order which comes with drag’n‘drop.

alanfluff · 2011-02-25 13:02:41

@liamdempsey

For simple sorts I also do what @philwareham does (just checked some source to be sure).

Can you see what the order is — for example if you re-save one of the Articles that is not found first, but with the Reset Time to now option ticked then re-load the page, does the order change? Another thing that’s tripped me up recently is the heavy caching in Chrome, if stuck I often now dump all cache from ano browser, Safari say, then try the weird thing there too.

Good luck, cheers, -Alan

liamdempsey · 2011-02-25 16:52:03

@ philwareham –

Thanks for your continued efforts.

@ alanfluff –

I can’t quite figure out the display order. It’s not chronological, nor is it alphabetical. Per your recommendations, I cleared the cache and checked the site is different browsers. Still no luck.

Here’s the code I am using:

<txp:article_custom form=“news-listing” section=“news” on_home_page=“y” sort=“custom_13 asc” />

The ‘on_home_page’ allows me to limit which posts are displayed on the homepage of the site.

Thanks for your help. Much appreciated!

alanfluff · 2011-02-25 17:09:59

Is it because, perhaps, article_custom defaults to only looking for 10 articles then it bails and the first 10 it looks for does not include the articles you expected? I may be wrong there, but quick test would be to add limit="999" to the article_custom tag.

Luck! Cheers, -Alan

liamdempsey · 2011-02-25 17:34:39

@ alanfluff -

Good idea! I previously had a limit=“4” (which fit the design), but had since removed that. Based on your comment, I have added limit=“999”, but again, no luck.

Many thanks for your continued attention and assistance.

philwareham · 2011-02-25 17:39:33

Have you ruled out the linked form being the problem? Try this and see if you get any output…

<txp:article_custom section="news" on_home_page="y" sort="custom_13 asc" limit="999"><p>this works</p></txp:article_custom>

If you get a list of ‘this works’ output, then that means the form is where the problem is.

Last edited by philwareham (2011-02-25 17:42:07)

alanfluff · 2011-02-25 17:39:47

Hmm, I had this noted down a while back to remind me how I fixed this once, dunno if it’s applicable here, hope so:

Best practice is that custom names may include letters (uppercase or lowercase), numbers and under_scores, but no spaces or other special characters.

Luck! Cheers, -Alan

liamdempsey · 2011-02-25 17:55:32

@ philwareham -

I used the code as you suggested and got a list of ‘this works’ output.

However, my form is really, really simple: <p><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></p>

Do you still think that my form might be the problem?

@ alanfluff -

Cheers for that recommendation. I thought about that too, and per your recommendation changed ‘news-listing’ to ‘news_listing’. Still no dice!

alanfluff · 2011-02-25 18:13:39

Remove some of the criteria from the article_custom for now, such as the on_home_page and if not that then also the section, whittling away complexity until the sort order is correct, then add back one at a time to see if that suggests anything?

A tough one! Luck, cheers, -Alan

philwareham · 2011-02-25 18:25:28

In your original post your code suggested it was linking to a form labelled as ‘news’ yet in your last message you state it is labelled ‘news-listing’ (or ‘news_listing’), is that the problem?

johnstephens · 2011-02-25 18:28:29

Have you looked at the tag trace?

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