73 votes
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.
robert
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.
wss
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?
wss
Robert,
Thank you for your suggestion.
robert
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... more
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
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.
wss
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.
Edward Hardin
Any ideas on how to make managing articles order simple for user?