Hi Marc,

thanks for your kind words, much appreciated, and sorry for not replying earlier.

The basic idea of the package is to allow users to do a manual sort on all child nodes of a selected node based on defined criteria. From a workflow/UX perspective the emphasis here lies on 'manual', ie a user interaction that triggers the sort, which is a one-off occurence.

Now to make it work like the Document Sorter you'd actually have to hook up the sort trigger to an Umbraco system event (e.g. the publishing of a document) and not to a user interaction on an aspx page via Javascript. That is definitely possible, but changes the nature of the tool quite considerably. There are quite a few more considerations with regards to performance, concurrent editor actions, etc.

Nonetheless it's definitely a good idea, I envision something like a simple tick-box that will render the current sorting 'permanent', aka all new nodes will be sorted as defined by the criteria. It's quite a bit to implement though, maybe worth a poll to find out how many Umbracians would actually use it that way?

Anyway, many thanks for putting the two pieces together!

Cheers,

Sascha

Hi Sascha & Mike,

I've been pondering the same idea.  For a while I've wanted to add a feature in Document Sorter to allow a user/admin to define the "sorting configuration" for a given node via the admin UI.  My initial thoughts were a custom datatype on the Properties tab to define the various sorting attributes, but after seeing this package I really like Sascha's idea of using a context menu action.  I also like your idea of the tick box to make the configuration permanent.

Have been meaning to ask you (Sascha) about thoughts on possibly combining the two or if its best to keep them separate.  What do you think?

-Tom

Hmm, I initially thought this is what AutoSorter is all about; automatically sorting nodes when new ones get created...
So I was surprised to see this is actually a feature request.

This package is nice, but without the 'automatically keep it sorted' option, it's not really useful for me. So implementing this feature, combined with the current great UI, would be superb!

I would use it the same way as kipusoep. Even so, it's quite a nice and tidy package :)

Any news about this?
What about triggering it codebehind from the Document.AfterPublish event?

I finished some easy sorting code today. I hope it will be usefull for you.

This sorting fires after new document is created and automatically sort all siblings alphabetically. You can change direction by simply chaning property in OrderBy() linq part. It's not tested much, but it seems it works well.

using System;
using System.Linq;
using umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web;
using umbraco.cms.businesslogic;
using umbraco.BusinessLogic;

namespace Sorter
{
    class Handlers : umbraco.BusinessLogic.ApplicationBase
    {
       public Handlers()
        {
        Document.New += new Document.NewEventHandler(Document_New);
    }

    void Document_New(Document sender, NewEventArgs e)
    {
        Document parent = new Document(sender.ParentId);
        int i = 0;
        parent.Children.AsEnumerable().OrderBy(d => d.Text).ToList().ForEach(d=> { d.sortOrder = i++; });
       }
   }
}

The above code will not work on Umbraco 6. Can you please suggest how to automatically sort all siblings when a new node is created in Umbraco 6?

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