drag and drop fields in a template does nothing?

[gyaani]

This is what I have understood:

Adding a field to a template makes the field 'available' to the template file. Which can then be echo'ed out (Ex: echo $page->summary), if it needs to be..Are there any cases where fields aren't echo'ed ? Just wondering..

Secondly it seems drag and drop on the fields on  Edit Template is just for visual purpose, i.e it doesn't actually do anything. Right ? Not saying that it should, just I expected something on the page to change on using drag and drop and got a lil confused..

Please correct me where I am wrong.

Thanks

[adrian]

Hi gyanni and welcome to PW!

You can echo out any field that is available in the template that is assigned to the page you are viewing, just like in your example.

Drag and drop sorting of the fields in the template changes the order that the fields will appear in when editing any pages that have that template assigned to them. 

Does that make sense?

[kongondo]

Welcome gyaani! 

Note that if the field is an array, then echoing it out will not help you much; you will need to loop through the field (e.g. fields such as images where the field accepts multiple images, multiple pages reference fields, etc...)

[gyaani]

Thanks for the welcome  

Drag and drop sorting of the fields in the template changes the order that the fields will appear in when editing any pages that have that template assigned to them. 

Ah in the admin! I see