Posted by kaizendenki on January 19, 2009 at 9:11am
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| Project: | Innovation News |
| Version: | 6.x-1.3 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
Issue Summary
It would be nice to have some control over the order in which articles appear in the Edition Viewer.
I created a work around by doing the following:
//$sql = 'SELECT * FROM {node} WHERE type IN ' . $news_types_SQL . ' ORDER ' .
// 'BY created ASC';
$sql = 'SELECT * FROM {node} WHERE type IN ' . $news_types_SQL . ' ORDER ' .
'BY changed DESC';With the above code it is possible to modify the order on demand by editing one of the stories. The most recently edited will rise to the top of the page.
Comments
#1
Thank you for making this request. We are looking into improving the flexibility which the Innovation News modules allow. One popular idea is to make editions taxonomy-based.
This would mean that when you install Innovation News, a vocabulary called "Editions" would be created automatically. The Edition Manager would then essentially become a tool for bulk-assigning Edition terms to nodes. This type of system would allow you to create custom edition names and would allow you to work with editions just like any other taxonomy terms.
By default, editions would be displayed just like any other taxonomy terms. But if you wanted to sort your editions in a different way, you would only need to create a custom Edition "View" (using the Views module).
Do you think such a system would meet your needs, and be a good solution to your problem? We are beginning to develop improvements to Innovation News, and would be more than happy to collect community feedback as we move forward.
#2
Taxonomy would be a great solution for what I have in mind. Thank you for your work on this! As a side note, e-journal does this, but is not yet working for Drupal 6.x.. Maybe both projects could benefit from the other?