On 8/2/11 12:42 AM, ken manheimer wrote:
i've wanted for a long time to be able to show the contents of a folder, ordered as they would be in the folder, along with some text describing each item, plus some rich text above describing the folder, as a whole. there is a number of combinations of various facilities that come close to providing this simple arrangement, but fail in tantalizing ways. have i missed something?
maybe ;-) The catalog does now about order in a folder through the getObjPositionInParent index. In case that's not available for sorting in a collection (I didn't check) you can enable it in <site>/portal_atct/atct_manageTopicIndex Is that what you are looking for? Raphael
the obvious answer is to use a collection with "No sort order" for the sorting criterion. unfortunately, "No sort order" doesn't wind up being the same sort order as that of the items in the folder, except sometimes, by accident. (of course - the collection doesn't consults the catalog, not the folder, for the contents.) that's a showstopper for me - what i really want is to be able to adjust the ordering of the items in the folder in order to adjust their ordering in the collection. the other tantalizingly close option is to just use a folder, with an (optionally, customized) summary, standard, or table view, and use the folder Description text as the introductory text. alas, the folder Description is plain, not rich text. well, how about using a collage, with a folder inside it? aargh, that's a mess - navigation portlets don't track the contents properly, etc. i know i should just create a derivative folder content type that has an additional, rich-text area before the listing (and after, if i really want). unfortunately, i've given up on finding the time to do that, so i'm asking if anyone has faced the same need, and found a solution? ken _______________________________________________ Product-Developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/plone-product-developers
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