Ordering output of ezselection

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Eric Weik	Friday 28 January 2005 6:31:30 pm I've worked on a number of projects where we ended up using a custom selection datatype instead of ezselection simply because the items in the selection may change over time. I.e. lets say that a class has an attribute with the following initial options: Red Yellow Blue Violet But later this needs to be updated with orange and green. Right now our only option is to do "new options" twice, resulting in a rainbow that is out of order: Red Yellow Blue Violet Orange Green My solution has always been to create a new datatype for these that actually stores its values as text. This way the creation of the dropdown comes from a template (and can easily be re-ordered). However, creating a new datatype is somewhat arduous (and does not encourage re-use). Anyone have any suggestions on how to work around this, or should I just add a suggestion to the bug tracker? -Eric

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Friday 28 January 2005 6:31:30 pm

I've worked on a number of projects where we ended up using a custom selection datatype instead of ezselection simply because the items in the selection may change over time. I.e. lets say that a class has an attribute with the following initial options:
Red
Yellow
Blue
Violet

But later this needs to be updated with orange and green. Right now our only option is to do "new options" twice, resulting in a rainbow that is out of order:
Red
Yellow
Blue
Violet
Orange
Green

My solution has always been to create a new datatype for these that actually stores its values as text. This way the creation of the dropdown comes from a template (and can easily be re-ordered). However, creating a new datatype is somewhat arduous (and does not encourage re-use).

Anyone have any suggestions on how to work around this, or should I just add a suggestion to the bug tracker?

-Eric

eZ debug

Timing:	Jan 18 2025 19:39:44
Script start
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Module start 'layout'
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Module start 'content'
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Module end 'content'
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Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime	1.0260 sec
Peak memory usage	4,096.0000 KB
Database Queries	46

Timing points:

Checkpoint	Start (sec)	Duration (sec)	Memory at start (KB)	Memory used (KB)
Script start	0.0000	0.0063	587.9141	152.6250
Module start 'layout'	0.0063	0.0032	740.5391	39.4453
Module start 'content'	0.0095	1.0152	779.9844	439.8516
Module end 'content'	1.0247	0.0012	1,219.8359	8.1641
Script end	1.0259		1,228.0000

Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0032	0.3097	16	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0013	0.1244	16	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0009	0.0914	1	0.0009
Mysqli_queries	0.9870	96.2014	46	0.0215
Looping result	0.0004	0.0434	44	0.0000
Template Total	0.9965	97.1	2	0.4982
Template load	0.0019	0.1840	2	0.0009
Template processing	0.9946	96.9398	2	0.4973
Template load and register function	0.0001	0.0095	1	0.0001
states
state_id_array	0.0008	0.0740	1	0.0008
state_identifier_array	0.0008	0.0821	2	0.0004
Override
Cache load	0.0015	0.1429	19	0.0001
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute can translate value	0.0005	0.0460	1	0.0005
Fetch class attribute name	0.0006	0.0538	2	0.0003
XML
Image XML parsing	0.0004	0.0417	1	0.0004
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute	0.0000	0.0004	2	0.0000
General
dbfile	0.0008	0.0785	16	0.0001
String conversion	0.0000	0.0010	4	0.0000
Note: percentages do not add up to 100% because some accumulators overlap

Templates used to render the page:

Usage	Requested template	Template	Template loaded
1	node/view/full.tpl	full/forum_topic.tpl	extension/sevenx/design/simple/override/templates/full/forum_topic.tpl
1	content/datatype/view/ezimage.tpl	<No override>	extension/sevenx/design/simple/templates/content/datatype/view/ezimage.tpl
1	content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl	<No override>	extension/community_design/design/suncana/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl
2	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/line.tpl	<No override>	design/standard/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/line.tpl
2	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl	<No override>	extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl
1	print_pagelayout.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/community/templates/print_pagelayout.tpl
Number of times templates used: 8 Number of unique templates used: 6

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs