From: Ursula Pieper dramamezzo@gmail.com 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.

Thanks Ursula; I'd looked at the project page for nodequeue very briefly, and I had assumed you could only add nodes to it, not entity bundles like content types. I'll download it and have a further look.

As it stands, for now, I've gone down the route suggested by Joel with an array containing the content type machine names in the order I wanted them, a view that took an argument of content type, and then looped through the array, creating individual views before glueing them together.

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On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Joel Willers joel.willers@sigler.com wrote:

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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.