Sort Virtual Pages

Kirby 3 Questions 🤔
1

I’ve created virtual Pages for each User Account which has the role ‘artist’. Is it possible to sort the Virtual Pages? So that I am able to manage the order of the pages?

2

This is very little information. Please provide more information about what you are actually doing and how and what you want to achieve in detail.

I guess you want to manually sort the virtual pages in the Panel? That would only make sense if you store your sorting numbers somewhere.

3

The Artist users are getting created like this:

 $newUser = User::create([
                            'email'     =>  $email,
                            'name'      => $artist->title(),
                            'role'      => 'artist',
                            'language'  => 'de',
                            'password'  => 'topSecret',
                            'content'   => [
                                'position'  => 'artist',
                                'allowed_page_uuid' => $artist->uuid(), // Set the allowed page UUID
                            ]
                        ]);

Now every Artist is getting a Virtual Page:

class ArtistsPage extends Kirby\Cms\Page
{
    public function children(): Pages
    {
        if ($this->children instanceof Pages) {
            return $this->children;
        }

        $artists = [];

        //Db::select('artists')
        //$kirby->users()->filterBy('role','artist')
        foreach (kirby()->users()->filterBy('role','artist') as $artist) {
            $artists[] = [
                'slug'     => (Str::slug($artist->name())),
                'num'      => 0,
                'template' => 'artist',
                'model'    => 'artist',
                //'files'    => $comment ? $comment->files()->toArray() : null,
                'content'  => [
                    'mainimage' => $artist->images()->filterBy('template', 'mainimage'),
                    'large' => $artist->images()->filterBy('template', 'large'),
                    'gallery' => $artist->images()->filterBy('template', 'gallery'),
                    'text'  => $artist->name(),
                    'user'  => $artist->name(),
                    'since' => $artist->since(),
                    'posid' => $artist->positionid(),
                    'tags' => $artist->tags(),
                    'description' => $artist->description(),
                    'uuid'  => Uuid::generate(),
                ]
            ];
        }

        return $this->children = Pages::factory($artists, $this);
    }
}

Now: How would you recommend achieving the sorting numbers? I want to list the Account Pages in a specific order. The later the user is generated, the further back they should appear in the list.

4

is there anything I can do?

5

When creating a user, save their creation date in the user file. The sort them by date, applying this creation date as num prop.

6

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Am I able to add the creation date automatically? So that I can create the user via the frontend?

7

is that possible?

8

Wait, you wrote above you are creating the users programmatically on the frondend, right? So all you need to do is add a new content field in your content array with the current date/datetime.

For the Panel, I would make this either a hidden or readonly field in the user blueprint. If you create your users via the Panel, set the default value of this creation date field to “now”

fields:
  created:
    label: Created on
    type: date
    time: true
    default: now