Terry Corbet wrote:
Three Items:
01. Do I have a conceptual mis-understanding concerning Categories?
Wherever they appear in the U/I, my users think that they ought to appear
in
some sensible order. Granted the definition of sensible may take some
thought, but shouldn't there me some configuration parameters and/or an
administrative screen for controlling order of display?
yes, some ordering makes sense. I don't think anyone has ever suggested
that they want some ordering other than alphabetical so there has never
been a need for user control over ordering.
02. Ok, so, I do think it is important. Is that a problem I should have
been able to solve through the Velocity Macro capability, or is it
necessary
to go into the code? If it is solvable via Velocity, I would appreciate
any
example code.
You'd have to fix that in the code.
03. Since I could not solve it at the Velocity Macro level, I have
written
and apparently successfully tested code to present Categories in
alphabetical order. That was just the simplest 'reasonable order'
solution.
Actually, I suppose the correct solution would involve an 'ordering'
field
added to the Category class with a corresponding change to thye U/I form
to
capture that order as well as re-order when required. If anyone is
interested, give a shout.
The code should already have been ordering the categories
alphabetically, so I'm not sure why that wouldn't have been happening.
What version are you using and how exactly are you getting the
categories listed on your page?
01. I am ashamed to admit that I am not at all sure I know what
versions I am using. I have been running what I believed to be the
latest 3.1 beta binary since the end of November, but the CHANGES.txt
file there just talks about 3.0.
02. When I decided earlier this week that I was going to have to get
into the code, the massive changes to the Roller site were in mid-stream,
and I'm pretty sure that the only source download I could find was
for 3.0.
03. So, with egg on my face, I guess I am talking about 3.x.
04. As to what I am displaying -- I have not made any sneaky changes
to any skins, so I am talking about the displays of Categories across the
top of a page, or in the right panel where By-Category RSS feeds might
be obtained. And I am talking about the view you get as Blog owner
if you add or delete Categories. In all of those places, the order is
predominately, the order of Category creation.
05. I first tried to find the SQL. I think I did. I think I
successfully
added an Order By clause using Hibernate's API, but it did not change
the views.
06. My fix was to perform a Sort on the LinkedList that is created
in a piece of code that is evidently used by all those 'viewers' because
it changed the ordering at least on the top and in the admin view --
I have not checked RSS feeds.
