I want to have a user selectable option to sort sub pages alphabetically and if not sorted alphabetically then use the manual sort order. So in my template I want to say pages.children.sortBy(SORT_OPTION, SORT_DIRECTION), where SORT_OPTION and SORT_DIRECTION are variables set by reading the fields f…

I suggest to solve this with an if-else statement depending on the value of the field, so that if the user wants to use manual sorting, you don’t use the sort method.

Actually I figured out I can use ‘diruri’ for the sort field. Nicer than having to make different collections of pages and using an if statement to choose between them. I noticed that my folders got a bunch of crazy dashes as a result of my experimentation, like 1----projectA, —projectB, --projectC…

I’m looking for a solution for manual sorting. For the $hasPrev function. Can you explain what your solution is?How does ‘diruri’ help with this?

Make sortBy use manual sorting order

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texnixe October 21, 2017, 9:34am 5

@Vivo: Check out this solution: Navigate into a collection with hasNext/hasPrev

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Make sortBy use manual sorting order

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