Posted by Janne on August 4, 2008 at 9:31pm
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| Project: | Taxonomy VTN |
| Version: | 6.x-1.0-rc5 |
| Component: | Miscellaneous |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | needs review |
Issue Summary
Hello! Great module. I'm using it to create an index of people in films (sort of a movie database), and it works just fine, except that the terms are sorted by their first names, rather than their last (i.e. Eddie Murphy gets sorted under "E" instead of "M").
Do you have any idea how/if I could get the module to sort these terms the way I want them to be sorted?
Comments
#1
Hi.
I think that you should write last name as first place.
Give me a link to your site, then maybe i can help more.
#2
I don't think I can write "Murphy, Eddie", since multiple taxonomy terms (as well as actors, I guess) are divided by commas. Otherwise, that would have been a good solution.
The work on a movie database has sort of halted, due to family issues, but here's the link to my actors index (the site is in swedish): http://www.lancefestivalen.se/?q=taxonomy_vtn/voc/5
#3
Janne,
This is just way too specialized. I suggest you write a patch that people can apply if they want to use the taxonomy as a list of actor names.
This would otherwise open a can of worm. There could be hundreds of ways to sort things out.
One way for you could be to put just the last name in the tags. Then have a page for that last name which lists (using a View) all the actors with that last name...
Thank you.
Alexis Wilke
#4
I have a different situation, Our website has LOTS of taxonomy terms - tens of thousands.
And many of them are arranged by number and we cannot get the VTN to display them in number order.
Here is one example of a page: http://openjurist.org/f1d that has lots of vocabs that will not go in the proper order.
Any advice?
#5
samdeskin,
This is interesting. But if you have numbers such as 15.34.11, then it is harder to sort. Especially because 15.100.3 is after (without the periods it would be before).
I guess I can accommodate all these sorts in some ways, but I'm not too sure how I can at the same time deal with large numbers of terms and the proper sorting.
Thank you.
Alexis Wilke
#6
Janne,
If I were to add another field to your terms, would it be useful? The idea would be that the extra field would include "Murphy, Eddie" which would not be shown, but could be used for the sort. What do you think?
Thank you.
Alexis
#7
I think that's a pretty good idea!
I could find definite use of it the way you suggest, and anyone interested in sorting their terms one way or another could probably benefit from it as well...