I issue this as a support request because i couldn't find anything documented on how this should behave:

I have a user who entered fields in the following profile-categories:

  • Contact
  • General information: Person
  • General information: Study
  • Goals and plans
  • My Competencies
  • My studyproject
  • Professional training and carreer
  • Research
  • Teaching

I have reset all field-weights to zero to be sure that this doesn't affect the results.

The query for the setup of $user->content in profile_view_profile (file: profile.module) works correctly as it returns all profile_fields ordered ascending by category.

Also template_preprocess_user_profile (file: user.pages.inc) gets the $variables['account']->content in the right sort-order even though content_profile and summary have been added at the beginning and user_picture and domain at the end.

The following uasort in template_preprocess_user_profile that invokes element_sort (file: common.inc) on the other hand messes up the sort-order completely... i now get:

  • user_picture
  • My studyproject
  • Professional training and carreer
  • Teaching
  • content_profile
  • Research
  • My Competencies
  • Contact
  • Goals and plans
  • General information: Person
  • General information: Study
  • summary
  • domain

while i appreciate that summary and domain end up at the end of the list, the whole sort-order of my profile-categories is wrong and content_profile (a seperate node element) is placed somewhere in the middle of my profile-fields. Again there is no field in any of those categories with a weight other than zero. The same thing happens in other minor revision of 6.x as well.

I have no clue where to go from here, so any pointer would be appreciated. It seems there is no guarantee for the order of categories (as element_sort orders by weight only) in the user-page... this is particularly awkward because the profile.module orders the category-tabs alphabetically, so users might expect that to be the order on their user-page as well. Also if this issue is going to be a feature request in the future, a bit of discussion would be vital for an implementation.

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mischan’s picture

mischan commented

i forgot to say: even if you add weights to the fields in the alphabetical order of categories which can be quite cumbersome, the category order is still messed up.

NicoDruif’s picture

NicoDruif commented

I wanted to say that I have the same issue here: I am wondering how I can order the categories on a profile page... Anybody?

NicoDruif’s picture

NicoDruif commented

I did manage to sort the profile categories by calling them in a certain order in my user-profile.tpl.php like this:

		<?php print $profile['Echte naam']; ?>
		<?php print $profile['Contact']; ?>
		<?php print $profile['Adres']; ?>
		<?php print $profile['summary']; ?>
		<?php print $profile['vcard']; ?>

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mischan’s picture

mischan commented

Yes, that would be a possible solution, but I am looking for something where no template or code intervention is necessary (ie it should be done via the administrative interface). Our current solution is to simply build a view where each category gets its own subview. But you still have to link to that view from the profile page and it is not as nicely integrated.

ciancomp’s picture

ciancomp commented

I was having the same issue as well. I did the checks of the order and discovered I could hardcode the categories but the user image drops. I found a fix on another thread. Be sure to read down because there is an update to the initial fix: http://drupal.org/node/270352#comment-1113360

ainigma32’s picture

ainigma32 commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Solution(s) provided so setting to fixed.

- Arie

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.

mikespainhower’s picture

mikespainhower commented

The following module provides a solution:
http://drupal.org/project/profile_category_weight