Terry Corbet wrote:
Three Items:
01. Do I have a conceptual mis-understanding concerning Categories?
Wherever they appear in the U/I, my users think that they ought to appear in
some sensible order. Granted the definition of sensible may take some
thought, but shouldn't there me some configuration parameters and/or an
administrative screen for controlling order of display?
yes, some ordering makes sense. I don't think anyone has ever suggested
that they want some ordering other than alphabetical so there has never
been a need for user control over ordering.
02. Ok, so, I do think it is important. Is that a problem I should have
been able to solve through the Velocity Macro capability, or is it necessary
to go into the code? If it is solvable via Velocity, I would appreciate any
example code.
You'd have to fix that in the code.
03. Since I could not solve it at the Velocity Macro level, I have written
and apparently successfully tested code to present Categories in
alphabetical order. That was just the simplest 'reasonable order' solution.
Actually, I suppose the correct solution would involve an 'ordering' field
added to the Category class with a corresponding change to thye U/I form to
capture that order as well as re-order when required. If anyone is
interested, give a shout.
The code should already have been ordering the categories
alphabetically, so I'm not sure why that wouldn't have been happening.
What version are you using and how exactly are you getting the
categories listed on your page?
-- Allen
