recent publications block sort by date [#659006]

Hi,

currently I can configure the block to sort by date created and by year. But if I have many publications in the same year, they show up in some random order.

Two things could be done here:

- sort the block by the same algorithm as the main biblio list, when using "Year". For some reason in the main biblio list the full date is taken into account; or
- add the option to sort the block by "date" rather than "year".

Comments

Comment #1

aren cambre commented 19 January 2010 at 01:45

This would be fixed by #682044: Support fields (CCK) in D7 Bibliography Module, but not sure if rjerome wants to defer this tactical request to a strategic project.

Comment #2

rjerome commented 19 January 2010 at 01:50

Could you explain how this would be fixed by CCK?

Comment #3

aren cambre commented 19 January 2010 at 03:44

Implement the Date module, and then present through Views using the Date field as the primary sort and the field that thiagobart wants for the secondary sort.

Comment #4

rjerome commented 19 January 2010 at 13:40

You don't need CCK to do this, Views can do it all on it's own.

Comment #5

aren cambre commented 19 January 2010 at 14:18

If you use the Date module (a custom CCK field), you'd have excellent granularity control on the Views sort handler already built in. Otherwise you'll have to reinvent the wheel.

Comment #6

dcor commented 22 November 2010 at 20:25

Could you possibly allow a second sort as an easy quick fix for cleaning up the list a little? (i.e. primary by year and secondary by primary author's last name?) This would make it easier to find things in long lists of publications.