I'm not sure if anyone's seen this, but I've written a patch for multi-sort columns in the changelist ui here:
http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/11868 Not sure if this is what you guys had in mind, but I'd be interested in your feedback. On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Joshua Russo <josh.r.ru...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Sorry for dragging this back out of the depths but I was reviewing my > code for regression testing and I noticed I had missed this comment > way back when. > > Where is this named sort option documented? > > It seems to me that the implementation that I have here would still be > useful even if you could associate multiple sort columns with a single > displayed column. I think that it's confusing to the developer not to > have the list display using the sort order that is defined within the > model. > > > On Aug 13, 2:49 pm, Rock <r...@rockhoward.com> wrote: > > My suggestion for handling the UI for multi-column sorts is to allow > > the definition > > of named sorts in a manner similar to the way that the default sorting > > is defined. > > With this in place, additional multi column orders can be accomplished > > simply > > by using this name as a sort selection and applying the corresponding > > named sort. > > > > If this is an acceptable approach, I can flesh out the API for it. > > > > On Aug 11, 10:10 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <malc...@pointy-stick.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > For those, like me, wondering what this proposal was about, it's > > > concerning changing sorting in the admin interface to initially use the > > > full set of fields specified in Meta.ordering on the model. > > > > > What I can't work out yet, due to difficulty in reviewing the patch, > > > mentioned below, is whether it allow sorting by more than one column > via > > > the column-clicking method. That would almost certainly seem to be a > > > request that is going to arrive 10 seconds after a feature like this is > > > committed, although the difficulty has always been with how the UI > works > > > for that situation. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
