collective.sortmyfolder

Introduction

The piece of software that make it possible to sort items in Plone contains hidden additional features.

Normally, when you call a sort action in Plone, you call a URL like this:

http://myhost/myfolder/folder_position?position=up&id=content_id

... of course, KSS/jQuery stuff in recent Plone versions will hide this feature, but is still available when you disable Javascript.

The Plone UI has no way at the moment for performing actions like this:

http://myhost/myfolder/folder_position?position=ordered&id=fieldname

But this feature is inside Plone: in this way you will sort a folder automatically, using a field value for comparison (like "title", or "created").

The folder_position script uses the orderObjects API. This last method has some additional nice features that unluckily are not exposed to users. But we can fix this.

What this product does

This product adds to Plone some of the features that follow, patching Plone a little (see also #11317).

http://myhost/myfolder/folder_position?position=ordered&id=created&reverse=1

http://myhost/myfolder/folder_position?position=up&id=content_id&delta=4

Add a nice Plone interface for global folder sorting

Your "Action" menu will be populated with a new entry: "Sort folder". This will present the user a Plone form where he can perform common sorting operations.

The last option makes it possible for users to specify a custom attribute that's not in the list; if you don't like this, just add a CSS rules which hides the choice_custom_field element. Use of this last option needs some Javascript to be executed.

What this product isn't

This product only reveals features that are already in Plone (inside the orderObjects method). It will not add new sorting behaviour.

Dependencies

Testing for collective.sortmyfolder has been done on:

• Plone 3.3
• Plone 4.0

Credits

Developed with the support of S. Anna Hospital, Ferrara; S. Anna Hospital supports the PloneGov initiative.

Authors

This product was developed by RedTurtle Technology team.