Comments on: Advanced sorting features for plone folders

By: Edmund M

Edmund M — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:13:17 +0000

Not sure if this is entirely relavent, but I wrote some code to implement an iphoto-like slide sorter. All images in the folder are in a grid which resizes with the size of the window. Any image can be drag and dropped to anywhere in the grid. I wrote up what I did at: http://plone.org/documentation/tutorial/create-a-2d-image-sorter-based-on-folder_contents-sorting-functionality/?searchterm=slide%20sorter

By: fRiSi

fRiSi — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:30:33 +0000

@Ricardo: thx for your hint! in this case folder_position does pretty the same (except moving an item up/down)
by operating on the folder instead of the object somebody wants to move (requires the user to know the id of the item).

@Jon: coding this is not the big deal. to get this into 3.2 we’d need a plip with detailed description of the changes, correct?
some ideas:
* batch properties can be set in folder_contents (show 20 per page, all)
* arrows for moving items to top and bottom of the listing in the sorting column
* buttons for sorting items (asc/desc) by changing their objPosInParent (probably with a dropdown to choose which index to sort on)
* probably option on folders how to display items (somehow like atvm simplevocabulary (alph asc/desc, objposinparent)
this might require changes in folder_contents and other templates

By: Jon Stahl

Jon Stahl — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:47:13 +0000

It would be really nice to see these features polished up, given some UI, and contributed to trunk for 3.2!

By: Ricardo Newbery

Ricardo Newbery — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:15:04 +0000

The folder_position script provides some basic sort support.

http://example.com/path/to/folder/folder_position?position=ordered&id=title

Adding a UI is easy. Extending the script to support reverse ordering would also be trivial.