TV Input Types - Resource List - Sort Sequence

Anyone know how to change the sort sequence when the resources get listed for a TV where the input type = Resource List?

Current it's listing all resources, which is good, but the listing appears to be sorted by

Parents
then Children
then throw in a bit on randomness

I'd probably prefer it all by pageTitle

I don't think there's a way to do it, but it would be a good feature request.

Could the current order be Resource ID? If so, you could control it by creating them in the right order.

Hi Bob, it's not sorted on Resource ID. Anyhow trying to create resources with the resource ID you want in order to get alpha sort would only really be sustainable for about the first day.

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You're right. Here's the sort criterion:



So you could, in theory, control it by setting the menuindex on all the resources. In fact, it might work to just sort the tree by pagetitle.

You could also change that code in
core/model/modx/processors/element/tvs/renders/mgr/input/resourcelist.php (line 50) to this:



I don't think it would have any adverse side effects, but I'm not positive.

Thanks Bob

This is a good find, thanks guys!

A small path/name update for MODX 2.2.6:
core/model/modx/processors/element/tv/renders/mgr/input/resourcelist.class.php (line 52)

Quote from: BobRay at Nov 28, 2011, 03:15 PM

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You're right. Here's the sort criterion:

$c->sortby('Parent.menuindex,modResource.menuindex','ASC');

So you could, in theory, control it by setting the menuindex on all the resources. In fact, it might work to just sort the tree by pagetitle.

You could also change that code in
core/model/modx/processors/element/tvs/renders/mgr/input/resourcelist.php (line 50) to this:

$c->sortby('modResource.pagetitle','ASC');

I don't think it would have any adverse side effects, but I'm not positive.

Luckily this fix still works in ModX 2.6.5!
But I'm not sure if this manual change will persist after updating ModX? Will it?

Probably not, but if you create a backup copy of the changed file it will still be there.

This one should really be a feature request. The default sorting is impractical and should be configurable in the TV settings