How do you change the order of the fields?

Posted by Steve Dondley on November 19, 2007 at 11:18am

Issue Summary

I have fused view presented as a table. The columns of the parent view always show before the columns of the child view. Is there a way to change this behavior?

Comments

#1

Posted by Steve Dondley on November 19, 2007 at 12:04pm

OK, I was able to accomplish this by overriding the theme to the view in template.php:

function unionproud2_views_view_table_yourviewname($view, $nodes, $type) {
  $desired_order = array(0, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 7, 6);
  $old_order = $view->field;
  $new_order = array();
  foreach($desired_order as $index) {
    $new_order[] = $old_order[$index];
  }
  $view->field = $new_order;
  $old_order = $view->table_header;
  $new_order = array();
  foreach($desired_order as $index) {
    $new_order[] = $old_order[$index];
  }
  $view->table_header = $new_order;
  return theme_views_view_table($view, $nodes, $type);
}

To use this with any other view:

1. Be sure to change the _yourviewname in the function name to the name of your view.
2. Change the $desired_order array to reflect the order you want the fields to appear. So, if you have five fields and you want to make the first column last and the last column first, you would put:

$desired_order = (4, 1, 2, 3, 0);

#2

Posted by rgraves on February 25, 2008 at 4:53pm

I tried this and changed yourviewname to my view's name but this did not work. Do I need to change anything else (like the unionproud2 part)?

#3

Posted by Steve Dondley on February 26, 2008 at 7:05pm

Yes, change that to phptemplate if it's going in your template.php file.