Answered How do I change the order of documents (children)

HI and thank you for reading this. I have scoured many tutorials and this forum but can't find my fix.
I can successfully change the order of my documents (children) in my site tree but the change is not reflecting on my website.
Example. Parent Document is "News". I have 4 children documents. 1. "last year" 2. "this month" 3. "this week" 4. "today". I want "today" to display at the top of the list on my website. I have modx 1.0.3 Rev 6653
Note: Drag and drop doesn't change the document order on my website, only in my site tree.
I hope someone can help with detailed step by step before I finish pulling all my hair out lol.

Are you using wayfinder to generate the navigation if so then using &sortBy and &sortOrder would do the job see http://rtfm.modx.com/display/ADDON/Wayfinder for more info.

I would do this by setting the Menu Index for each page to get them in the order I want eg today set to 1 , week 2, month 3 and year 4 then set the sortBy to menuindex so the example call would be

opps just spotted your using evo i thing the call for evo would be



If I remember correctly.

Hi Pete and thank you so much for your reply. I inserted your code but the document is still showing at the bottom of my list instead of at the top where i want it. I cleared cache but to no avail. I might be doing something wrong. Here is exactly what I did.
ELEMENTS>MANAGE ELEMENTS>WAYFINDER and changed code so that it now looks like this.

I tried that too but not working still.

ok sorry wasn't clear this needs changing in the template not the wayfinder snippet.

I'm running from memory here not used evo for a while.

but under elements there should be the site's template edit that. Some where in that code there should be a call to wayfinder and thats what you need to change don't just do a straight swap see what other parameters are set and just add the 2 I have given on if they are not there.

The only problem is depending on how the site was set up this may also be in a chunk too. Did you set the site up or someone else.

You can choose ascending or descending order with Wayfinder. Add one of these parameters:
&sortOrder=`ASC` or &sortOrder=`DESC`

@Pete Edley is right, don't modify Wayfinder Snippet directly. The actual code of Wayfinder should be inside a template or a chunk of your website.

Pete, someone else set up the website. Thank you microcipcip. I'll check my sie templates and chunks and try to find the code and change it. I appreciate this ty.

I looked in templates and chunks and can't find a reference there to wayfinder. I did find this. Would it have anything to do with a possible fix?
Oh and Pete, thanks for the detailed instructions. It helps to ensure that I do it right step by step.