Sort Images in PW (not on live page)

[Russ Parker]

Currently when you upload images in PW, they are display in the order that they finished uploading - not necessarily in the order that they need to be in.

I have a client that will be uploading approx. 100 images per page and needs them in filename order so that he can annotate each image using the description box.

I can get PW to spit out the live page in the correct order:

$images = $page->images->sort('name');

But this only works on the live page, which means that inside PW it is still a bit of a mess and my client still needs to reshuffle the images by hand in order to get the annotation right.

Is there a way to get PW to sort the uploaded images in the page editor?

[LostKobrakai]

You could use a autoload module like this https://processwire-recipes.com/recipes/extending-page-save-process/ and use it to change the order of the images on page save. This way you client still has to hit save, but at least it's not manual work. 

$page->images = $page->images->sort('name');

The other option would be hooking into ProcessPageEdit and adding a javascript file which does the sorting right away.