By default, umbraco appends the node as the last node for a certain parent node. But, you could write an event handler that will do the sorting for you (automated) or do the sort manually (via context menu).

If you're going the automated route, then write an event handler that fires on document save or document publish and sort the nodes based on the "news date" property of the nodes.

In your event handler, get all nodes of the same level (having the same parent) and change the sortOrder field in the database for each of the nodes using some sql statements.

 

Hope this helps.

Regards,

/Dirk

Thanks Dirk, i will give it a try and come back to you, if i need some further help.

Cheers

Nauman

Can find some nice wiki posts on event handling starting here.

 

/Dirk

Hi Nauman

I'm trying to do the same as you - did you make it work, and if so, would you be so kind and share a codesnippet with me?

Thanks a bunch :)

/Mathias

Take a look at my wiki article, it should help

http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/api-cheatsheet/using-applicationbase-to-register-events/event-examples/change-default-newitems-sorting

Petr

 

Petr,

Thanks! Can it be also be used to sort by dates from a "news date" field set by datepicker (as described in the first post)?

/Mathias

Keep in mind that doing on-new/ on-save/ etc sorting is very database intensive. 4.1 makes it a bit easier to 'fake' the sort order in the tree, I'm speaking about this in a few weeks and after that I'll put it up on my blog (sorry, no early sneak peaks :P)

Maybe a little late, and I'm not 100% on the code, but wanting to do the same, I came up with the following:

namespace
 
 
 UmbracoDemo
{
 
 
public class EventRegistrar : umbraco.BusinessLogic.ApplicationBase
{
 
 
public EventRegistrar()
{
 
 
Document.AfterSave += new Document.SaveEventHandler(Document_AfterSave);
 
 
Document.AfterPublish += new Document.PublishEventHandler(Document_AfterPublish);
}
 
 
protected void Document_AfterSave(Document sender, umbraco.cms.businesslogic.SaveEventArgs e) { SortNews(sender); }
 
 
protected void Document_AfterPublish(Document sender, umbraco.cms.businesslogic.PublishEventArgs e) { SortNews(sender); }
 
 
protected void SortNews(Document doc)
{
 
 
if (doc.ContentType.Alias == "newsPage")
{
 
 
var parent = doc.Parent;
 
 
if (parent == null)
 
 
return;
 
 
var articles = new List<Article>();
 
 
foreach(CMSNode child in parent.Children)
{
 
 
var childDoc = new Document(child.Id);
 
 
var articleDate = DateTime.MinValue;
 
 
if (childDoc != null &&
childDoc.ContentType.Alias == 
 
"newsPage" &&
 
 
Convert.ToString(childDoc.getProperty("articleDate").Value) != "" &&
 
 
DateTime.TryParse(Convert.ToString(childDoc.getProperty("articleDate").Value), out articleDate))
{
articles.Add(
 
new Article
{
ID = childDoc.Id,
Date = articleDate
});
}
 
 
else
{
articles.Add(
 
new Article
{
ID = child.Id,
Date = 
 
DateTime.Now.AddYears(100)
});
}
}
 
 
if (articles.Count > 1)
{
 
 
var sortOrder = "";
articles.Sort((x, y) => y.Date.CompareTo(x.Date));
 
 
foreach (var article in articles)
sortOrder += article.ID + 
 
",";
 
 
var nodeSorter = new umbraco.presentation.webservices.nodeSorter();
nodeSorter.UpdateSortOrder(parent.Id, sortOrder.Trim(
 
','));
}
}
}
}
 
 
public class Article
{
 
 
public int ID { get; set; }
 
 
public DateTime Date { get; set; }
}
}

Matt,

Thanks, its working great!

Hey Mathias,

If this solved your problem, maybe you could mark my post as the answer to help others out.

I did make one minor change. At the end i now do a check so that I only resort if the sort order has changed.

When I have a spare moment i'll role it up into a package.

Many thanks

Matt

Hi Matt

Would be happy to mark your aswar as a solution, but can't because I didn't start the thread :-(

Good idea with the check in the end, will try to implement that also.

/Mathias

Ahh, my bad, thought it was your question.

Ahh well, glad I could help none the less.

Matt

Hey Mathias,

I've put toegther a package if you'd like to give it a try:

http://our.umbraco.org/projects/document-sorter

Let me know how you get on

Matt

PS It's my first package so please be gentle

Hi Matt,

Great package, with very good functionality and config options!

For my inspiration and learning, would you mind provide me the final source code?

/Mathias

Hi Mathias,

I've added the source code to the project page.

Many thanks

Matt

Please help me how to alphabeticaly sort media nodes in Umbraco 6. Here is the code snippet showing the work I have done so far:-

 void MediaServiceSaved(IMediaService sender, SaveEventArgs e)

      {

          try

          {              

              foreach (var mediaitem in e.SavedEntities)

              {

                  var parentnode=  mediaitem.Parent();

                  var parentid = parentnode.Id;

                  var childnodes = parentnode.Children();        

 

 

                  var staffprjnodes = new List< TestNode >();

                   var staffnewprjnodes = new List< TestNode >();

                  foreach (var childnode in childnodes)

                  {

                      int childid = childnode.Id;

                      string name = childnode.Properties.Where(property => property.Alias == "Name").ToString();

                      if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(name))

                      {

                          staffprjnodes.Add(

                              new StaffPrjNode

                              {

                                  Id = childid,

                                  Name = name

 

                              });

                      }

                  }

                  var sortorder = "";

                    if (staffprjnodes.Count > 1)

                      {

                          var sortorder = "";

                         staffnewprjnodes= staffprjnodes.OrderBy(x => x.Name).ToList();

                      }} 

              }}

          catch (Exception)

          {        

              throw;

          } } }

 

    public class TestNode

    {

        public int Id { get; set; }

        public string Name { get; set; }

    }

 Please review this code. The sorted list of nodes will be in the list staffnewprjnodes.Please tell me how to "updatesortorder" of the parent node with this sorted list?

 

 

       

 

 

Guys...please can anyone suggest ...am I on the right track or not?

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