Howdy All!
This is a bit of a complex one - so thanks in advance if you take the time to read through this -
Our installation has events, which have 1 to many "dates" (they shouldn't be published if no dates are present - so these should be irrelevant here) so our list that we are outputting should have the following (ordered as we wish to have it ordered):
- Course 1
- 10 July 2016
- 11 July 2017
- Course 2
- 15 July 2016
- 15 August 2016
- 15 September 2016
- 5 July 2017
- Course 3
- 20 August 2016
Each occurance of a date is stored as an instance of the group x (each date has several fields like date, ID and some Meta info - mostly to be passed to our booking system) and each Course is an Article (Content type: event - a number of fields, not relevant to the sorting though)
Currently we rely on Manual ordering - which for 35 events with a ~80 sittings between them isn't very managable - we are looking to set a list & search type up that will order the Courses by the first (soonest/next) date of an event - which is where we've ran into a snag...
How would we set up a list & search type to be ordred by the lowest timestamp stored in the introtext?
Thanks in advance for any help! :)
Thanks for your reply. I had read that page and watched the tutorial before, but I think I am missing something.
I want to order my articles based on the next date, in list of dates which is stored in a group X. I can add the Group X to the Ordering Tab, but I can't specify the field WITHIN the Group X which I want to order by.
Any thoughts? Thanks again.
What happens if you add field from within group x to ordering tab? When you are searching for data that is stored in group x yo should always use fields from within for search so I would think it is the same for ordering
http://www.seblod.com/resources/extensions/plug-ins/group-x-field
When I do that, the list is ordered randomly. I cannot see any kind of pattern to it.
> Menu item for the list, Default Order is set to "Use Global"
> In the list and search type, in ordering configuration, I have set "Default Order" to "Inherited"
> In ordering, I have added my group X child field (it is a "Calendar" and the storage format is timestamp)
> The same child field is also in the "Search Form" tab.
> If I remove all data from a content item's Group X (in otherwords, if I have no date set), the item is still listed in the same position as it was when it had a date.
I really don't understand what I'm doing wrong. Could it be something to do with the storage options?
> Child item of the Group X has Format / Object of Standard | Article | rcpeveventsittingdate
> The Group X storage format is Custom | Article | Introtext
Hope that helps.
Thanks again!
Please see tutorial linked above for right storage settings for searches
