Search and reference multiple items do not transfer the sort order correcly with Chome and IE (it works with Firefox) [#1947546]

Problem/Motivation

When we add nodes over the "Search and reference multiple items at once" dialog and sort the selected nodes in the modal window, the order is not sent correctly to the node edit form (see the screenshots).

It works with Firefox but not with Chrome and IE. In Chrome and IE it seems the order is always the node id.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#2	search_and_reference-1947546-2.patch	1.45 KB	_randy
	ArtikelZumThema5.png	209.68 KB	weri
	ArtikelZumThema3-4.png	265.73 KB	weri
	ArtikelZumThema1.png	203.29 KB	weri

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Comments

Comment #1

_randy CreditAttribution: _randy commented 11 November 2013 at 19:40

Seeing this issue as well. The issue happens in node_form.js.

In the updateMultipleValues method there is a for loop:

for (var nid in selectedItems) {
            self.selectedItems[fieldOptions.fieldName].push(selectedItems[nid]);
        }

It would appear that in Chrome and IE, the selectedItems object is always coming in as sorted... There really isn't anything that we can do here other than go back up the chain and try to add those selected item nids in to an array with a strongly keyed index.