Sorting

Sorry, this is not a feature that is not implemented by any other built-in CCK widgets, and therefore goes beyond the scope of this module.

unfortunetely you are wrong:

http://drupal.org/project/nodereference_views_select allows sorting of multiple selected values

please rethink your statement..
sorting will be very helpful option

You're referencing a third-party project. That's not part of the CCK built-in module set. In any case, this is not something that I'll personally be working on, so the status should remain as "won't fix". Please do not change the status unless you yourself plan to create a patch that provides the functionality you want.

@attheshow,

sorting may be "not implemented by any other built-in CCK widgets", but generally may be implemented in third party cck widget.

your module provides "third party" cck widget - exactly as nodereference_views_select module does.

if this means you are not going to implement sorting into your module, I can only say: it's a pity:-(

I know this discussion is old, but the nodereference autocomplete widget, which is _not_ a third-party widget (built into nodereference) enables sorting. See this comment.

If Multiselect had sorting, it would be an amazing module. As it is now, it's still great, but I don't see the functional difference between multiselect, and a list of checkboxes (css styled to be within a scrolling window).

attheshow, do you have any thoughts on possibly enabling sorting at all, seeing as now it's implemented by a built-in CCK widget?

any way to do this with another module, a patch or some custom code ?

Would like to see a sorting option too.

Here is a patch for this feature.

Enjoy

- Damien

Nice patch :)

Awesome #8 for that patch. Thanks. Hopefully, this can be included in the next release. Works well enough to sort and order the terms around.

Why hasn't this been included with the new releases yet? It's highly desired.

Based on #8's patch, I created a patch against the current 7.x-1.x-dev version and included some style changes to make the UI more clear. I also included two new icons for the move up/down button but these are rather simple and should probably be rebuilt to be in line with the existing ones.

Sadly, no one reviewed the patch and now there has been a new release. Nothing important changed from 1.12 to 1.13, .module and .js files have not been changed, just some CSS. So the patch does not work with the new CSS file, the rest remains.

@attheshow: Should there be a review or are you still holding to "Won't fix"?

@Paul Broon Hey! I'm open to the sorting patch now that someone else has put some effort into it. I noticed that in #12 some CSS flex changes were brought into the patch. The patch should probably be re-rolled without those included. If you want to open a separate ticket regarding the CSS flex changes and create a separate patch to include those, that would probably make the most sense since they don't relate to this particular ticket.

The main reason for the flex stuff was due to how the layout of the multiselect worked and how my client wanted to have the icons show up. Also, as mentioned in #12, the buttons I chose for moving an item up/down are not really related to the original multiselect module. Do you have suitable icons in your icon set where you took add/remove from?

I'll try to generate a new patch against 1.13, but as I am skiing next week, this might be around mid-February, only.

Yeah, those are quite a bit different. No the add/remove icons were custom-designed by a designer that I worked with quite a few years ago.

Hi guys,

I needed to use the sorting functionality, so I tried to apply the patch provided by Paul Broon above to the latest module version (1.13). I fixed all the css issues tha arised from the patch, and now it seems to be working and looking ok.
I also changed the move up and down icons to some more discreet, but you can replace it again if you want.

Sorry if I omitted anything from the contributing format.

I have updated once more the codebase. There was an issue when you used this module with mforms. It would not render the sorting arrows.

multiselect-7.x-1.x is no longer supported, because Drupal 7 is no longer supported.

Is this feature still desired in the 2.x version of the module?

I'm going to mark this issue as "Postponed (maintainer needs more info)"... but when you answer, please change it back to "Active". If there is no reply in ~6 months, then I will mark this issue as "Closed (outdated)". Thank you in advance for your understanding and patience as I try to keep this module's issue queue clear.