Add ordering of the articles inside the category
Now it is kind of torture to create step-by-step how-to categories because articles inside the category can be ordered by name, date and rating only. But it will be extremely useful (at least for me) if it would be possible to set custom ordering.
Andrey Fedorov
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Adminwss
(Admin, Web-Site-Scripts.com) commented
dallomong: "It would also be great to assign a sub-category to more than one category."
That would be very confusing, if you'd think this through. Imagine that you want to setup different permissions to those categories. That would be complete mess. -
dallomong
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I'd like to see conditional ordering - If article is in category A, rank it 1, if it is in category B, rank it 10, etc. Even better if this can happen via drag and drop and have the actual ordering invisible to the KB administrator. It would also be great to assign a sub-category to more than one category. I do not see a way to make that happen right now.
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The only issue for this implementation is that article can be assigned to several categories and thus it can have it's own sorting position in any of them. Seems that adding sorting "value" will be easy and do the deal. We can simply do not care about multiple article to category assignments in favor of feature implementation simplicity.
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robert
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It is a solution used by some of you competitors and it gives the user more control than the present possibilities. Especially when you want to use 2 differtent sort orders within your database. For example step by step user manual and news items in one database.
You problems:
1 If you choose to sort by another colomn, the articles are sorted that sequence in de backend. I do not see a problem.
2 If you drag and drop an article to another category you can keep the number for the sort order. -
Adminwss
(Admin, Web-Site-Scripts.com) commented
Asdi,
I doubt if it would be usable. You can re-sort articles in any order at any moment in the back-end. So for example if they are sorted by number of attachments, you do not see the real order of these articles (how they are ordered in the front-end). What should happen when you drag-n-drop an article to another position in this case? -
Adminwss
(Admin, Web-Site-Scripts.com) commented
Robert,
Thank you for your suggestion. -
robert
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The problem with prefixing with 1, 2,3 and then choosing alphabetical ordering is, that ALL categories are sorted alphabetical. This is not practical because other categories in the same database like for example NEWS have to be sorted by date of entry.
SOLUTION
The easiest solution is to create an extra field with an numeric value. The user can edit this field freely. This field is only visible on the admin side. Then adding a sorting sequence on this value (low to high/high to low). The user is now 100% in control of the sequence. -
ErikR
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You would also need to be able to set the ordering at a category level, something that I was just about to open a new category for.
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Adminwss
(Admin, Web-Site-Scripts.com) commented
One of KMP users has a good solution. He uses KMP to create tutorials, and he just puts a prefix to each article name: "a.", "b.", "c.", or "1.", "2.", "3.". It serves well for some cases - you just need to turn on alphabetical ordering at Customization > Styling and Front-end Settings > Articles.
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Any ideas on how to make managing articles order simple for user?
