[support] Views: sort by arbitrary field value

[Ursula Pieper]

I think the module you are looking for is nodequeue. You can choose
which content types to add to a nodequeue, and a view is automatically
created. You can then reorder the nodequeue to your liking using an
interface.
I find this easier for the customer than adding a custom "weight-like" field.

Hope this helps, Ursula

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Gerald Klein <jk at zognet.com> wrote:
> Or simpler add 1 file as integer and use that as the sort value number like
> 10,20,30 or depending 100,200,300 then you can stick in between later.
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> --jerry
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> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Joel Willers <joel.willers at sigler.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> You could do sorting in the .tpl.php, if need be. Also, you could call the
>> view programmatically, creating an array of sort terms, then filter by the
>> node type, stepping through a loop of each term.
>>
>> Views is quite robust in capabilities, but specific search order isn't as
>> kind. I suppose you could try something a bit more funky, building a content
>> type that just has a weight and another content type, then use relationships
>> to display the view. Or maybe add a weight field to each existing content
>> type, setting a default to each one, then sorting by weight, like 1 for
>> news, 2 for blog, 3 for page. Taxonomy could also do some fun stuff with
>> sorting.
>>
>> Hope that gives you some ideas.
>>
>> Joel
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
>> Behalf Of DTH
>> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 3:43 PM
>> To: support at drupal.org
>> Subject: [support] Views: sort by arbitrary field value
>>
>> Say I have a view that lists all the nodes on my site. Say I have three
>> content types: page, news, blog.
>>
>> If I sort by content type, I can only sort by ascending or descending
>> order: e.g. "blog, news, page" or "page, news, blog".
>>
>> What do I need to do if I want the articles to be sorted in an order of my
>> choosing, say "news, blog, page"?
>>
>> (I guess I could create separate views for each content type and attach
>> them, but what if I had thirty content types, say, and added more regularly)
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