help with article menu

jaredhales · Post by **jaredhales** » Fri 4. Jun 2004, 22:10

on the site i'm working on, we have press releases in phpwcms.

to list the press releases, i was making use of the "article menu" content type. this is great because we can list all of the press releases automatically. if a new one is created, it is simply put into the list.

however, i am having trouble getting them in order we would like. we are trying to put the press releases in a specific order. we don't want them ordered by the date they are created or modified, because sometimes they are created out of order. and, other times we may have to go back and correct a typo.

ideally, we could arrange the order of the articles in the "article" menu. then, they would be presented in this order.

what's the best solution to my problem? are there any?

maybe a nice phpwcms feature request for oliver owuld be to include an option when dealing with an article menu to sort the articles based on criteria picke by the user, including: alphabetical, modified date, creation date, or the order listed in articles menu

jaredhales · Post by **jaredhales** » Fri 4. Jun 2004, 22:15

here's the url if you want to see the page i am referring to:

http://web.poss.com/index.php?news_press

ignore the table, that's form our old design & go to the bottom of that page, each year (2000, 2001, 2002, etc.) is an "article menu" content type

GreenNuggs · Post by **GreenNuggs** » Sun 6. Jun 2004, 21:27

My article menus are ordered by the order you see them in admin panel not by date. Hence, you can modify the way they display there. http://yoursite.com/phpwcms.php?do=articles

jaredhales · Post by **jaredhales** » Mon 7. Jun 2004, 15:24

GreenNuggs wrote:My article menus are ordered by the order you see them in admin panel not by date. Hence, you can modify the way they display there. http://yoursite.com/phpwcms.php?do=articles

sorry, i didn't mean the "site structure" that is defined within the admin panel. rather, within the site structure, i have a level with a number of articles. by creating a new article, with a content type of "article menu" i can choose to display all the articles that fall under one section of the site structure, my question is how do i make them display in the order i wish?

jaredhales · Post by **jaredhales** » Mon 7. Jun 2004, 16:07

for those who are interested, i found it does put the articles in the order they are specified in the "article" panel.

though, it seems to be buggy, at one point they were not being displayed in this order, i moved some articles around and suddenly it began "obeying" the order i had specified. weird, but it works now