2086: Manual reordering of content / Pinning - Composr CMS feature tracker

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2086	Composr	core	public	2015-11-27 13:06	2022-08-15 02:18

Reporter	Chris Graham	Assigned To	Guest
Priority	normal	Severity	feature
Status	new	Resolution	open

Summary	2086: Manual reordering of content / Pinning
Description	Currently content is ordered either via: - Hard coded assumption (e.g. for download categories it probably makes no sense to order by anything other than title, so we hard-code it to avoid bloat) - A _default_sort_order config option with ability to override in UI - A _sort_order config option (no ability to override in U)I - Catalogue category sort order is defined as above but per-catalogue - Catalogue entry order is defined by a choice of which catalogue field to order by It is conceivable that individual content items may want to be given a custom order. This is not possible for anything currently except catalogue entries. Manual ordering specialises into 3 cases: 1) No override (null order value) - uses ordering as defined in cases above 2) Override to a precedence value 3) Override to a negative value - displayed specially as "pinning" The new ordering field would override any user-chosen/automatic sorting, notably: - main_multi_content (i.e. main content listings while browsing) - module content listing code that isn't already generated via main_multi_content - ajax_tree hooks (i.e. tree browse widget), and <select>-style selection lists - sitemap generation (i.e. menus etc) An index would be needed for any new ordering field. For pinning all the content box templates would have a "PINNED" parameter and show a pin icon (same as forum) for any pinned item. We'd want to implement for: images, videos, galleries, download categories, downloads, catalogue categories, polls, news categories, news, quizzes. I am skeptical whether we should implement this stuff, as it will bloat stuff up. We will be able to achieve announcements in various ways already (e.g. there's a config option to display one), we can have stuff pinned in main_multi_content etc (3354), we have pinning especially for the forum, we have awards which case be built into templates; I don't think it really needs to be available as a general-purpose feature. Sure there are use cases - e.g. sponsored promotion, but that can be handled with banners anyway. And if we do it we'll want to integrate with 786 to make this user-friendly, which will be a lot of work.
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2019-07-31 19:28	Chris Graham	Relationship deleted	related to 786
2019-07-31 19:32	Chris Graham	Relationship added	related to 786
2019-07-31 19:32	Chris Graham	Relationship added	related to 3557
2019-07-31 19:46	Chris Graham	Summary	Pinned content (ordering) => Manual reordering of content / Pinning
2019-07-31 19:46	Chris Graham	Description Updated
2019-07-31 19:46	Chris Graham	Time estimation (hours)	5 => 70
2022-08-15 02:18	Chris Graham	Description Updated