Hi,

This issue/support request is about sorting a views field. On my site, I am using Organic Groups and views. I use views to create a roster per group which lists information of "characters/members" in that group.

These members are organised by a rank, Captain, Sub-Captain, Area Bosses.. amongst others (irrelevant to list these ranks). What I'm looking to do is sort this "roster" [Table-view] so that there is a klind of "hierarchy" of sorts in that the nodes displayed in this table are sorted by "rank", Captain's appearing at the top and so on down to Recruits.

At the moment, I have been unable to automate this process and have added an additional field called "Sort Index" which goes from -10 to +10 and I manually assign each node a sort index number, which sorts them in this table. This group is expanding and merging into another organisation, which is taking on our system. Naturally this is not ideal to have many Group Admins who may be inexperienced in these processed using this sort index.

Is there a way that I can sort this view based on these ranks, Captains at the top and Recruits at the bottom, without having to add a seperate "Sort Index" CCK Field to the Creation/Edit Form?

~~ Whispero

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mcrittenden commented
Status: Active » Fixed

You can, of course, sort by the rank but that's alphabetical rather than some predefined sort order that you can set.

For this particular problem, I think nodequeue might be the best solution. http://drupal.org/project/nodequeue

Feel free to set status back to active if you still have questions.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.