Change page status to 'listed' with alphabetical order

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1

Hello!

I am calling this on a site with many pages.

$page.changeStatus('listed', 0);

expecting to see directories renamed to

0_title-a
0_title-b

as described in the Publishing Workflow on the Kirby site as a way to get alphabetical order (Editing & publishing workflow | Kirby CMS)

Instead I get:

1_z
2_q
3_a
4_c
…

Which is essentially random.

Is there a method to list pages with 0_ as a leading number?

Not a massive deal, as I can sort in a controller, but the changeStatus() method appears to give somewhat random results when it comes to sorting.

Any clue?

2

You have to set the sorting scheme to zero in your blueprint and not pass a number as argument.

And your syntax needs an arrow in PHP, not a dot. So should be

$page->changeStatus('listed');
3

Thank you @texnixe I didn’t know about the num prop in the Blueprint. Does that affect the Panel sorting too?

Ref arrow syntax: just a forum typo, sorry for the confusion!

Regarding not passing a number… I was confused by the docs at $page->changeStatus() | Kirby CMS

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I see int… I pass int. But reading through the Kirby code, there some input normalization going down the chain and 0 is converted to 'zero', and to add to that 0 is flat out ignored unless the Blueprint says it’s OK. Bit confusing which gear is in control of what there :slight_smile:

I understand the reference docs are auto-generated. Definitely an area of Kirby that needs improvement I think from the perspective of a new user like me learning its APIs.