Customised sort in Admin section

Tuesday 26 June 2007 7:48:34 pm

Paul,

One way would be to use the fetch function (http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/3_9/reference/modules/content/fetch_functions/list):

fetch( 'content', 'list',
 hash( 'parent_node_id',            parent_node_id,
     [ 'sort_by',                   sort_by,                   ]

Perhaps something like this would be a start?

{def $pauls_list=fetch( 'content',         'list',
	hash(	'parent_node_id',     $node.node_id,
		'sort_by',		array( 'attribute', 1, 'pauls_class/start_date')	) )}


{foreach $pauls_list as $children}

	{node_view_gui content_node=$children view="line"}

{/foreach}

Replace "pauls_class" with the class of objects being sorted, and "start_date" with the identifier of "start date", if necessary.

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Wednesday 27 June 2007 1:09:15 am

If you add a custom entry there I'm afraid you have to hack ezcontentobjecttreenode.php to make it work.

Specifically the functions createSortingSQLStrings and sortFieldName.
From the last one you can see what is currently supported:

            case 1:
                return 'path';
            case 2:
                return 'published';
            case 3:
                return 'modified';
            case 4:
                return 'section';
            case 5:
                return 'depth';
            case 6:
                return 'class_identifier';
            case 7:
                return 'class_name';
            case 8:
                return 'priority';
            case 9:
                return 'name';
            case 10:
                return 'modified_subnode';

So I would rather recommend to override children.tpl to override the sorting.

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