Views : manual or weight sorting on grouping taxonomy

Currently its not possible, without custom coding. You would have to override the argument handler of terms.

switch to minor feature request. But i really think, that noone will code this.

Unassigned task, up for grabs by anyone willing to provide the code.

It looks as though this issue pertains to this Forum thread, which indicates that there are a number of people looking for this functionality.
http://drupal.org/node/921498

I'm still new to Drupal but if I come up with a patch I'll certainly submit it for consideration.

~K

please check http://drupal.org/node/1056170 I think that patch applies to this.

Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately the patch in #6 doesn't solve the problem with sorting by taxonomy term weight. What it does is add an option to sort by vocabulary weight (which is also a worthwhile improvement!).

This does give me an idea of where to start looking though. The goal is to get taxonomy term weight to be recognized when the query results are grouped by taxonomy term in the HTML List style. This way the groups that are created for each taxonomy term will be sorted on the page by the weight of the term ($title in the item_list class as written by views-view-list.tpl.php).

Any additional suggestions are still welcome!
~ K

It's actually sorting by reverse alphabetical for me.

...I have only two traxonomy terms and few nodes so I just inverted them one at a time... bad idea, it worked on the English side of the site, but the French side orders them the reverse way. I can't seem to get a grip on how the ordering is done on a multilingual site, seems random. Anyone have any idea about this?

Cheers,

Albert.

alberto did you try the patch?
if you didn't and it's not related please open a new issue.
in the mean time this is still an unassigned task.

@iamjon I'm just documenting that terms are not always sorted alphabetically, something else is at play here. Perhaps it might help whoever has time to work on this; so IMHO that info might be related to this issue. I haven't tried the patch, no; looking for other ways around this for now. Thanks

Maybe I'm missing something, but I think I have this working with Views 6.x-2.12. I have a view of nodes of type Job, each of which are tagged with a single term from a Job Category vocabulary. In my view, I'm displaying linked node titles, grouped by term. To do this, I added a Taxonomy: Term field (exclude from display), then under the settings for Style, I chose "Grouping field: Taxonomy:Term". Under Sort criteria, I added Taxonomy: Weight in ascending order. Now if I go to admin/content/taxonomy/[tid] and use the drag-and-drop feature to reorder the weights of my terms, the grouping results of my view are reordered respectively. Is this what you're looking for?

@suthy thanks for your comment.

That made me think about something: on my site I have four different taxonomy vocabularies associated with my content type. I assume you only have one (Job category), in which case it is interesting that sorting by Term weight works.

However, afaik there is no way in the GUI to sort by term weight of a given vocabulary, so if a node has taxonomy terms with different weights, which weight is used for the sort?

... one more note: if we can answer that question (#14) perhaps we can modify the weights of the terms directly in the database to achieve what we need.

dereine, can you elaborate on how to get this done with custom code? I already have a separate tpl file for my view to sort by a secondary taxonomy (within the grouped fields) which works great. However, the taxonomy I group by is not displayed in the right order and I seem not to be able to get it right...

Thanks, J.

@alberto56 you're right: I have one taxonomy. I've never tried with multiple taxonomies. Definitely worth a test when I have or someone has the time.

I got this working (in D7 though) with multiple taxonomies by adding a filter for the vocabulary I wanted to sort by term weight on.

Hello, using the patch #2 from http://drupal.org/node/1056170 I was able to get a two level sorted list, first by Grouping field and then by Node title. The details are at http://drupal.org/node/921498.

Maybe it helps for this issue...

D6.25, Views 6.x-2.16

Try this module, works for me:
http://drupal.org/project/views_groupby

The module is built for deeper reasons but along the way it seems to give you sort control (via the SQL query) before the regular Views styled list grouping.

FYI, it took some tinkering in the Fields area but eventually was able to get it right. I had to read the module basic example in the documentation a few times.

Also... funny thing... the preview of my View and the View in my page node are reversed. So basically you cannot trust the Views preview output when using this module. I think maybe the query being generated by Views preview and Views in the page node may be slightly different.

I worked around this issue by creating a "secondary" vocabulary and adjusted all of the items (terms) in the secondary to have term weight of 1000 or more. Then I could use the sort by term weight and group by term. All of the nodes taged with terms from my Primary vocabulary float to the top and items in my secondary vocabulary sink to the bottom.

In Views 3+ (D6 & D7), you can do this by adding the vocabulary as a Relationship, and then Weight will show up in the Sort section.

See the following for details:

• Drupal 8 Tutorial: How To Order View Groups With Taxonomy Terms (also Drupal 7)
• https://www.drupal.org/node/921498#comment-4579984
• Is there a way to order views grouped fields?

The Drupal 6 branch is no longer supported, please check with the D6LTS project if you need further support. For more information as to why this issue was closed, please see issue #3030347: Plan to clean process issue queue