Is there a way to order the main categories that way you want?

For example if you have Arts, Business, Computers, Internet, Society categories, links will automatically alphabetize them for you on your entry index page as I have them listed. But can one manually set these categories the way they want them to appear on the main index page?

You can change the order but only by field name ascending/descending.

It isn't possible to order them individually.

Take a look at.... Setup > Build Options > build_sort_order_category

Not currently, easily, but hopefully Alex will work the code for GossamerForum into this for at least the top-level categories in a future release :)

It should be as easy as adding a new field to the Category table, and sorting on that field. Basically, not only specifying a sort order, but a sort field -- Name or Order --


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Actually, thinking about it, if you use the <%loop%> construct, you could probably use a global to take the array of hash refs, and reorder the array based on a field of the hash, and return a <%loop_sorted%> tag to use.... Hmmm....


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How about simply suppressing the index page from NOT building and HTML coding it manually to get your categories the way you want them to be seen?

anybody found a solution for this problem?

Hi,

Yes, you could add a column to the Category table called 'Sort_Order' and set the order you want the categories to be listed in. Then goto Setup->Build Options and change build_category_sort to Sort_Order and it will list the categories based on the order you enter.

Cheers,

Alex
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