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marr
marr

Reputation: 861

Folder Does Not Support Ordering

I see a message This type of folder does not support ordering when viewing the News or Events folder. My understanding is that items contained in such folder, their position order can not be set arbitrarily. Only alphabetical order for their IDs is applied.

Info message is enabled by wildcard.foldercontents

From ZMI, I see News and Events folders are of ATFolder type, everything seems the same with the regular folder I just create. What makes such difference? And what is the rationale behind this?

Edit: My bad that Info message in the above image is enabled by wildcard.foldercontents, which I thought due to Plone 4.3.2. However, the issue remains that position order can not be set arbitrarily. The following image attached to illustrate this.

Arbitrarily set position order will be reset alphabetically

PS: I ever delete the News folder, create a regular folder named news, this way I can set item position order arbitrarily. However, I find the Calendar Portlet within that folder is not working right. The issue happens when I click to switch months. The URL link will be out of its context, I mean, not staying in the news folder. Maybe this is not related to the folder ordering behavior, anyway, just for your reference.

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 205

Answers (1)

vangheem
vangheem

Reputation: 3293

For some reason Plone is shipping with the news and events folders being unorderable.

>>> news = site.news
>>> news.getOrdering()
<plone.folder.unordered.UnorderedOrdering object at 0x112e434d0>

I consider this a bug in plone's initial site installation.

Plone core actually explicitly sets the folder to unordered: https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/4.3.x/Products/CMFPlone/setuphandlers.py#L250

I don't understand why. I'll change it if there aren't any objections...

Upvotes: 1

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