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@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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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.

Hope that gives you some ideas.

Joel

-----Original Message----- From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of DTH Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 3:43 PM To: support@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"?

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