Adam Salter said the following on 01/29/2007 11:51 PM:
> Just a suggestion on how it could be implemented...
> How about a concept of 'weights' for pages.... ranging from -9 to +9,
> with the default being 0. It becomes easy to order pages using this
> method... just assign -1 to any pages you want above the default, +1
> to any below the default. Etc ad inspirum. (I just made that up -
> probably not real latin :)
> Note: This also means that you can still order alphabetically, for
> example, but page weights have priority.
> Drag and drop ordering sounds very difficult and complicated... this
> would work and be easy to implement in the short term.
This is how I first thought the order by worked!
I thought something along the lines of creating a new page part
and you put the number in there.
That was its under the author/editor's control, which is how it should be.
In my case I need to have a section like the blog postings that list events.
However their titles are either calendar date - "February 7th 2005",
"December 10th 2006" - or the name of the Event "Annual General Meeting",
"Ladies Night" - and the order in which they are created doesn't correspond
to the order in which they will occur.
There is also a section on the staff and board of this society, so titles
like "President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Event Secretary,
Membership Secretary, ..." have to be in an order that reflects the
organization, not alphabetical or date the record was created.
Having a page-part labelled "order" which controls sorting by use of the
ASCII ordering of the first lines offers a great deal of flexibility.
How difficult would it be to implement?
--
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the
world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer
possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
--V. S. Naipaul
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