Problems with the state of DraggableViews 7.x-1.x

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I tried the latest DEV version of the module on test-site - all stuff regarding draggable views - style plugin seems to run fine for me..

BUT the use of ORDER BY DraggableViews Order won't work in standard views - http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/2829/bild000qw.png. In the database the order is stored correctly. http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/3914/bild001g.png

It just pulls the standard order by post date - obviously i entered DraggableViews as order criteria.

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The Native draggable views order works fine for me. If you try to use a custom field however it does not work at all. Here are the steps that worked for me:
1. Create a view and choose the style to draggable table
2. add fields and make sure to add " Draggable_views: order "
3. Go back to style settings and configure the default sort and choose the Order field (the one added in step 2 ) as your order and save.
4. add Draggable_views: order to the sort criteria and make sure it is the primary order then save.

I hope I am doing it right but so far it is ok.

@awm086: have you tried the DraggableViews Order in another view with unformatted or table as views style setting ?
In my case this didn't work as expected - DraggableViews order is available as a field there but don't used by order criteria.

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@SteffenR: I am not sure I understand your approach when you say using unformatted. I think you must use draggable table in order to utilize draggable views reordering.

@awm086: ok - let me explain. I created a draggable-table view for my site editors to arrange some pictures - works fine if you use native sorting and "Sort By - Draggable Views: Order".
For displaying the ordered content i created a new display - instead of "Draggable Views" Style i set up "unformatted" Style with "Sort By - Draggable Views: Order" - but in this case the order won't be used ..
I hope it helped you to understand my "problem" ;)

SteffenR

Right. I completely agree that this module needs more attention and I haven't put enough efforts to it lately.

I would like to propose following plan for the development of this module:
1. Implement basic functionality of sorting (with and without pager):
- we need to have both native and fieldapi handlers properly working and covered with tests
- make alpha release
2. Implement advanced functionality of hierarchy

At the moment as far as I remember I stuck on work with pager as it heavily changed in views 7.x-3.x

I will create tickets to split tasks and mark them so everyone will see what is blocking at least alpha release.

Of course after each release we should update documentation.

Please let me know your comments.

@SteffenR Now i understand, but i did the exact same thing and it works like a charm for me. I created one display just for rearranging nodes and another that displays them.
According to the documentation the value of "Draggable Views: Order" is unique for every view. So for me it works across the view displays. Are you using any other sorting criteria? are you exposing other filters? what fields are you exposing (Bulk operations perhaps)?

I would suggest you try simplifying your view as much you can to see identify the "problem". Give us your feed back please.

Good Luck

@SteffenR I will confirm that the module is working fine for these purposes. I just did my first install having watching this:

http://nodeone.se/blogg/nodeone-talks-drupal-draggableviews-and-cck-fields

It is for D6, but it shows how to make one view for sorting and one for displaying using a field to store the results. Configuration is similar enough that I had no trouble.

Good luck!

@ecksley: have you tried this already in Drupal 7 - i tried to use the sort-order of a draggable view in a "normal view" and couldn't get it working. ( i already described above )

@SteffenR, yes. D7 is where I tested it. I just mentioned the D6 tutorial because that is where I learned about the module and how to configure it. It might be worth checking out if you are having trouble to see if you missed step.

In D6 I used the Weight module (which seams to be dying on the vine in D7) so I am totally new to draggable views, but have had no problem getting it to work.

As an aside, I might even say its better because it is possible to assign multiple sort values to a node based on context whereas Weight can only have one value. For example, I can have one field recording the sort order among all nodes of a type, and another field recording the order on a different View that filters by taxonomy.

@SteffenR, I'm running into the same problem as you. Creating a Draggable View TABLE works fine, but when I try to sort by the Draggable View SORT ORDER in a different view, it doesn't have any effect.

I use Draggable Views in D6 projects all the time and it works great. This issue seems to be D7 only. Something just isn't working right.

Okay, I was able to get it to work. Here's how:

In my previous, non-working incarnation of my Draggable Views table, I had added a "DraggableViews: Order" field, then specified that field as the field to sort by in the Draggable Views Table settings. This worked in D6 but doesn't seem to be functioning in D7.

So I removed my "DraggableViews: Order" field, and instead added a generic Integer field called "weight" to my content type. I then added that field to my Draggable Views table, and specified this field as the sorting field in the Draggable Views Table settings. Also you must change the handler setting from 'Native' to 'FieldAPI' for this to work.

Don't forget to update your public view to sort by the new weight field instead of the DraggableViews:Order field.

@chrisloos I am not sure how you got the custom integer field to work with the field API handler. I tried my best to do the same but kept getting the "Structure has been broken and it's been repaired error " and the order would not work at all. So I had to use the native handler along with the "Draggable Views: Order" field which for every view and can be shared across displays.

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The most important piece of making DraggableViews a true Drupal 7 module is breaking its implicit tie to nodes and making any Entity view re-orderable: #1264636: Allow for any fieldable entity to be ordered

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If your symptoms include empty select boxes when you click "Show row weights" then you might check out #1289418: Drupal 7 upgrade mistakes causes draggable views to not work in some configurations

This is an issue for 1.x, which is unsupported now. The 2.x branch is well supported. Draggableviews 6.x-3.x does not have all of the features of 2.x, but is supported. Closing issue.