Product List Order Problems with Alpha 8

Posts: 29
Joined: 11/05/2007

Hello,

I have set the List Order of a group of products from 1 to 11 but they are not being sorted correctly. it seems that they are not being sorted at all by the List Order value but alphabetically by name just like they were in Alpha 7. Any suggestion on how to debug this?

Thanks

Posts: 2008
Joined: 08/07/2007
AdministratoreLiTe!

Are you looking at the default View at the URL /products? I noticed that it doesn't use the List Order as a sorting configuration by default. In fact, if the Node:Title field is set up to be sorted by default, you can't sort by the list order at all.

I've fixed this in the repository but you can do the same thing. Set the default sort for all fields to be None. In the Sort Criteria section, add Product:Ordering and Node:Title. If the Title and Price fields are left as sortable, the user can override the Sort criteria as normal.

If you're looking at a catalog page, I can't reproduce the bug. They follow the list order as far as I can tell.

Posts: 29
Joined: 11/05/2007

The sort order works when I click on the Products link but it does not work when I click on the Catalog link in the navigation menu. I have not found where to set the default sort order for the Catalog page. Does this feature not exist for the Catalog? Is it a simple modification to the Catalog module to get this sort functionality? Will this change also work for the Catalog Grid module?

Thanks for your help.

Posts: 2008
Joined: 08/07/2007
AdministratoreLiTe!

As far as I can tell, it does work on the catalog pages, both on the livetest and my local test site.

I think it had previously not worked in an earlier version. Do you have alpha8? I know of one site that the sort order doesn't work on, so maybe I can figure out what's going on from that.