Sorting: order by vocabulary weight

#773000: Views : manual or weight sorting on grouping taxonomy maybe related

Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately the patch doesn't solve the problem with sorting by taxonomy term weight. What it does is add an option to sort by vocabulary weight (which is also a worthwhile improvement!).

The thread at http://drupal.org/node/773000 deals with getting the taxonomy term weight to be recognized when the query results are grouped by taxonomy term in the HTML List style. This way the groups that are created for each taxonomy term will be sorted on the page by the weight of the term ($title in the item_list class as written by views-view-list.tpl.php).

Suggestions on that topic are still welcome!
~K

@anrikun, I did try sorting by vocabulary weight after applying the patch, but it doesn't solve the problem for the site I'm modifying because they are already filtering the view using vocabulary. All of the nodes that are returned have the same vocabulary, so sorting by that field doesn't do anything.

The only thing being displayed by the view are node titles, but they are grouped (in HTML lists) by taxonomy term. The client would like the groups to be sorted within the view based on the weight of the taxonomy term.

Comment #1 in this thread http://drupal.org/node/773000 states "You would have to override the argument handler of terms". I'm willing to give this a try but since I'm still learning my way around the Drupal architecture I'd love to have a mentor. Anyone willing to help me out?
~ K

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Hello, using this patch I was able to get a two level sorted list, first by Grouping field using the patch from #2 here, and then by Node title. The details are at http://drupal.org/node/921498.

Thanks for this patch.

anrikun, I don't mean to hijack this thread, but I want to know whether this patch would make it possible to specify the vocabulary a term comes from when specifying a taxonomy term field in Views. That is currently what I am struggling with.

Is this patch scheduled to make it into the main branch of this module?

In general feature requests are currently only applied to 6.x-3.x.
6.x-2.x is in a bug fix only status. But this clearly can't break something

Where to apply the patch#2?
I can't find modules/taxonomy.views.inc.

Is this file in the views module?

Is this file in the views module?
yes it is

Thank you.
I found the file.

Hello,

I made the same patch for myself this morning and I was about to make a new issue when I found this thread.

I've updated the patch and added the taxonomy vocabulary weight as an argument and also for the term weight.
Maybe it will be useful to someone one day, who knows ;-)

This patch is for views 7.x-3.x but I'm pretty sur that it can be almost the same for 6.x-2.x and 6.x-3.x, if you need them, I can provide them.

Triggering the testbot.

I'll provide a new patch very soon, probably today.

Updated patch.

Patch at #24 works for me. I have a multi-value taxonomy field, and I'm able to add a relationship "Content: taxonomy terms on node", a field "Taxonomy: term name" using that relationship, group the display by the taxonomy term name field, then sort the groups by term weight using the relationship, and by node title within each group. Sweet.

+++ b/modules/taxonomy.views.incundefined
@@ -90,6 +90,24 @@ function taxonomy_views_data() {
+    'title' => t('Weight'), // The item it appears as on the UI,

I don't think this inline comment is necessary. Perhaps it was from the examples/documentation? Let's remove it.

Otherwise, looks great.

Here's the modified version of the patch.

I removed the inline comment as suggested by @tim.plunkett.

Looks good to me!

      'weight' => array(
        'type' => 'int',
        'not null' => TRUE,
        'default' => 0,
        'description' => 'The weight of this vocabulary in relation to other vocabularies.',
      ),

This is the schema definition in taxonomy.install, so it's technical a number.

Based on this, the handler types should be a bit different:

+++ b/modules/taxonomy.views.incundefined
@@ -86,6 +86,24 @@ function taxonomy_views_data() {
+      'handler' => 'views_handler_field',

views_handler_field_numeric

+++ b/modules/taxonomy.views.incundefined
@@ -86,6 +86,24 @@ function taxonomy_views_data() {
+      'handler' => 'views_handler_argument',

views_handler_argument_numeric

+++ b/modules/taxonomy.views.incundefined
@@ -86,6 +86,24 @@ function taxonomy_views_data() {
+      'handler' => 'views_handler_filter_string',

views_handler_filter_numeric

Rerolled, included patch credit for Pol and a commit message.

The timing on this is perfect. I so need it today! Btw. it works for me. :D

This looks perfect so far.

Thanks for the patch!

Committed this one to 7.x-3.x and 8.x-3.x