Pagelist order in admin

[Frank Vèssia]

In pagelist module i've found only the parameter of the number of pages before pagination but it could be very useful choose also the order of the page, alphabetical, last created... i have a very large page listing in one category and find a page is very difficult.

[Adam Kiss]

Well, if you have that much pages (3+ paginated lists), it makes sense to use page search though, doesn't it?

[Frank Vèssia]

no because i prefer the tree view instead of a serch list, the serach results are not useful if you want to be fast, if i need a page that start with "a" if my tree is ordered i can be very fast in editing. But the point is to have an ordered list no matter the ways to find a page.

[Adam Kiss]

Understood!

Although, to be fair, I'm not sure if default sort setting is even planned for page tree, Ryan should know better.

[ryan]

Actually default sorting is already there:

1. Edit the parent page of the children you want sorted in the admin.

2. Click the "children" tab, and then the "sort settings" link.

3. With the sort settings open, choose the field that you want to sort by. Save.

Now the results will appear in that order in the admin, as well as when you do a children() call from the API. Of course you can always override it from the API by specifying your own "sort=" selector in the children() call. But the method described above is how you setup a default sort for children of any given parent page. This is how they will appear in the Page List.

In my own sites, I use this particular feature all the time. For instance, on news/press items, I always want them reverse chronological according to a date field. In company directories, I sort them by person's name A-Z. And for other pages where I want to control the order with drag-and-drop, I don't set a default order.

Let me know if I've misunderstood your question?

But lets say that you are sorting by a "last_name" field, and it's different from your "title" field. You want "last_name" to appear in the Page List because it will be easier for you to find your pages that way?

1. Go to Admin > Modules > Process > Page List

2. Set the "name of page field to display" to "last_name title". Save.

Now it will display "last_name" in addition to the title for any pages that have that field. For all other pages, it'll display the title, as it does now. You can take this further by entering more field names in that space. This is handy for this theoretical situation, as well as displaying pages with dates (when they have them) along with the title, and other things.

Let me know if this helps?

[Frank Vèssia]

Great. it was unbelievable that you didn't think at this.  ;D

[apeisa]

This is great feature. But how about sorting page reference list? I think that setting should be on field settings, but cannot find. Should I use "Alternate/custom code to find selectable pages" to get sorting I need?

We have over 30 products and "Related products" field is pretty messy to use.

[ryan]

If using parent sorting, it should honor the order that is set on that parent. But if using template sorting, I'm not sure that there is an order... I will have to check, but it sounds like there isn't from what you are saying. You are right that there should be, so I will add it.

If you want to use the alternate code, that is another way to do it. In that case, you would just type this in there:

return $pages->find("template=something, sort=title");