By NiklasM on

Hi,

I'm looking for a way to let admin manually set the sorting order of nodes within a View. Imagine a page with several columns each containing a View listing of articles and different style boxes, all of which are nodes. If you don't want to sort the nodes according to Node: ID, Node: Creation time, etc. But rather give the admin in full control of where to place a node within a column, how would you do it?

My first idea was to create a taxonomy vocabulary called "Sorting weight" with the terms 1, 2, 3, 4 etc. and then in my Views panel set the nodes to sort according to "Taxonomy: Terms for Sorting weight". This was until I realized that there is no such option under Sorting Criteria in Views. If there was, then that would allow admin to set the weight of the node upon node creation, hence controlling it's position in the View, which is what I'm after.

Thanks in advance.

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armage’s picture

armage commented

Maybe the weight module will help you : http://drupal.org/project/weight

It allows you to add a "weight" field to any type of node.

Hope it helps,

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Patrick

NiklasM’s picture

NiklasM commented

It took me a while before I realized I should set the Sort criteria of my views to Node: Sticky Descending and Node: Created Time Descending. Once I did the module worked great though. Thanks for the tip! Great module!

dniemeye’s picture

dniemeye commented

This was originally posted back in 2007, so now with Drupal 7 and all the new modules and functionality, is there a better way than having to use the "weight" module or is this just exactly the ticket for manually sorting nodes in a view? I too need a way for folks to manage a view of their list of uploaded employee forms, board policies, etc and the standard way of sorting by date, size, file name, etc just won't work for our purposes. I'll look into this weight module but just wanted to ask if anyone knows of a better way to manually sort nodes in a view.

Thanks in a advance.

Dave N

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wranvaud commented

DraggableViews? https://www.drupal.org/project/draggableviews