Sort by user defined order?

Is there anyway to setup Ditto such that content editors can define the order in which each document is displayed? My only thought is that I could have Ditto sort by a TV, into which the user could enter a ’priority’ number. However I’m not sure how to set that up, does the tv that ditto sorts by need to be displayed in the ditto template? Is there a better way to do this?

"My only thought is that I could have Ditto sort by a TV, into which the user could enter a ’priority’ number. "

This is the most logical approach. To set this up create a TV called sort with a default value of 0.

Then append &sortBy=`tvsort` to your Ditto call and Ditto will take care of the rest.

Quote from: Mark at Jan 14, 2007, 12:33 PM

"My only thought is that I could have Ditto sort by a TV, into which the user could enter a ’priority’ number. "

This is the most logical approach. To set this up create a TV called sort with a default value of 0.

Then append &sortBy=`tvsort` to your Ditto call and Ditto will take care of the rest.

I’ve done as you suggested, however I still can’t get Ditto to change its order - It still displays the content in descending doc id order, despite my having specified different numbers in the ’sort’ fields. The structure of my documents is as follows:

<parent doc containing ditto call>
- <content doc 1> (The template that these content docs use has the ’sort’ tv attached to it)
- <content doc 2>
- <content doc 3>
- etc

My ditto call looks like this:


Is there something I’m missing, or extra parameters that Ditto needs?

Anyone got any ideas on this? I’m still stuck trying to get Ditto to take notice of the sortby parameter, as I’ve mentioned in the above post. Alternatively, is there a better, more user-friendly way to solve this problem (i.e the end-user being able to choose the order that ditto is displaying each ’block’)?

Hi,

which version of ditto are you using ? (1.0.2, 1.1.2, 2.0)

:-)

Sorry I should have mentioned that, it’s 1.0.2

I would recommend you to upgrade to the latest 2.0 which is much more powerful.

Note that I guess &sortDir is set by default to DESC.


:-)

Thanks for the advice, I’ve upgraded to version 2.0 RC2 and suddenly it’s working perfectly.