Problem with: sort_by

Wednesday 25 May 2005 9:30:14 am

I have a site where it's a listing of news.

I now use:

sort_by, $node.sort_array,

This works fine, but my customer wants to keep a couple of articles on top for a while.

This we could solve with sorting by priority, and give the two articles a higher value than 0. But the problem is that the rest og the articles with the value 0 are by default sorted the wrong way I want the newest first, following the two top articles.

Any of you know how to sort the articles with the value 0 the other way?
Or do any of you have a better solution?

(The customer wants to be able to do this sorting theirselves in the future too.)

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Wednesday 25 May 2005 4:59:30 pm

Or you could (without creating
override_sort_val attribute) fetch first the articles that have priority > 0 and sort them by any criterium you want. And then fetch all the rest and sort THEM also by any criterium you want.

It's easier, and convenient because priority can be updated in the admin interface in the listing.

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