5 replies to this topic

[Nico Knoll]

Hi,

is there a way to pin a page to the top of the page tree? I mean that every other page is sorted by date but this one.

/ Nico

[diogo]

You can do it on the template with $array->shift()

echo $array->shift()->title;
foreach($array->find("sort=date") as $item) echo $item->title;

edit: Or, if you want the complete array:

$first = $array->shift();
$final = $array->find("sort=date")->prepend($first);

[ryan]

You could also create and add a checkbox field to your template(s) and call it something like "sticky". When a page has the box checked, it will stick to the top of the list. Then when you perform the call to load your pages, sort by -sticky first, then by -date, i.e.

$pages->find("parent=/news/, sort=-sticky, sort=-date");

[Nico Knoll]

Well, thank you for the code but I meant in the backend page tree. (I would need a module I guess)

[Nico Knoll]

So.... I guess I have to write a module for this?

[ryan]

I think so. Parent pages don't currently support multiple built-in sort fields for children (like in the API), so it would have to be one sort field or the other. That makes it difficult to pin a page in the admin, even if you can do it easily in your own site. Down the road a bit I think we'll have to add multiple sort fields, which would solve this pretty easily.