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By spidersilk on
Quick question about the book module: I know you can re-order pages within a book to your heart's content in the outline view in the admin, but is there any way to re-order the books themselves? Specifically, how they appear in the book navigation block?
A site I'm working on is based around one large e-book, but has now added a second one containing selected reader feedback, questions, etc. about the first one. I'd like the main book to show up first in the book navigation block, but because its title comes later in alphabetical order, it's currently showing up second. And no, I'm not at liberty to arbitrarily change the titles.
I know the book navigation block is not technically a menu and thus the items in it can't be re-ordered the way a regular menu can be, but is there any way to assign them a weight or otherwise alter their ordering? Maybe via some kind of add-on module or snippet or something?
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Has anyone found solution for
Has anyone found solution for this?
We have about 20 books by now and our editors began complaining that it was difficult to work with them since they appear not in alphabetical order in the drop-down menu. We expect more books to appear at the website soon. I was surprised to browse the net just to find several people talking about this issue without any solution for this.
Evidently, there _are_ websites with many books so there _should_ be some idea around.
A possible solution
When I had a similar need used this: http://drupal.org/project/advancedbookblocks
have a nice day
Simone (Italy)
Thank you. This module let me
Thank you. However, this module let me sort books by weight, not in alphabetical order.
Exactly... You can change
Exactly... You can change the weight of the books to appear in the block the order you need, either alphabetical or arbitrary.
The same thing you do to the internal pages of a book you can do now to the books itself.
or did I miss something? (not english mother tongue, sorry)
Simone
Well, I think I can change
Well, I think I can change book weight with core Drupal functionality, I need to edit the top book page. However, changing every new book weight is not that thing my editors like to play with. They would love if all books are just sorted automatically by alphabet. Since I asked this question at this website I've run into several other people looking for almost the same function but no answers - except manually changing book weights. That seems strange; there should be websites with tons of books they need to sort alphabetically (I only have about 30 at my website for the moment); how do they solve this issue?
Anyway, if Drupal lacks this functionality I think that my colleagues could be satisfied with some Drupal module that will make book titles at admin/content/book page draggable (like pages inside books).
P.S. Another issue will be (obviously) to solve one more Drupal problem, namely limitation for book weights (from -15 to 15, only 31 positions).
P.P.S. The same topic: http://drupal.org/node/383532