collective.sortmyfolder 0.1.0

Introduction

The piece of software that make possible sorting items in Plone contains hidden additional features.

Normally, when you call a sort action in Plone, you call an URL like this:

http://myhost/myfolder/folder_position?position=up&id=content_id

… of course, KSS/jQuery stuff in recent Plone versions will hide this feature, but is still available when you disable Javascript.

The Plone UI has no way today for performing action like this:

http://myhost/myfolder/folder_position?position=ordered&id=fieldname

But the feature is inside Plone: in this way you will sort a folder automatically, using a field value for comparison (like “title”, or “created”).

The folder_position script use internally the orderObjects API. This last method has some additional nice feature that unluckily folder_position not expone to users. But we can fix this.

What this product do

This product add to Plone some of the features that follow, patching Plone a little (see also #11317).

http://myhost/myfolder/folder_position?position=ordered&id=created&reverse=1

http://myhost/myfolder/folder_position?position=up&id=content_id&delta=4

What this product doesn’t

This product only reveal feature that are already in Plone (inside the orderObjects method). It will not add new sorting behaviour.

Dependencies

Test for collective.sortmyfolder has been done on Plone 3.3. Tests on Plone 4 are welcome.

Authors

This product was developed by RedTurtle Technology team.

Changelog

0.1.0 (2010-12-02)

• initial release