[SOLVED] Navigation Field ordering by custom field is not working

The navigation order plugin doesn't appear to be honouring the sort order (by a custom field). Everything sorts correctly in the category views, but the navigation button seems to choose an order for items almost randomly (it doesn't change, but it also doesn't follow any clear order). I've checked the settings on the categories, and they're all inheriting the global sort, and I've checked the global sort, and it's correct. What else could be wrong?

(Oh, almost forgot: Joomla 3.4.5, Flexicontent 3.0.9-rc6c.)

Hello

- what is the custom field type?
- does the custom field have values for all items ?
- did you try another ordering, besides custom field, e.g. creation date ?

- The custom field type is a date (- FLEXIcontent - Date / Publish Up-Down Dates -).
- Yes, every item has a value for that field -- it's required and the item won't save without one.
- I've just tried telling one of the categories to order by creation date, and discovered that's the order it was actually doing anyway (instead of the one it should). Changing it to alphabetical did make the change as expected. I've changed it back, and the navigation has gone back to sorting by creation date, though everything else (i.e., the item list in the category) is sorting properly by my custom field.

Hello

I checked, the field was not updated to support ordering by custom field as date or decimal

github.com/FLEXIcontent/flexicontent-cck/issues/411

Aha, thank you. Is this likely to be fixed soon, do you think?

Hello

this is not a bug, it is not implemented yet,
- so let's call it an issue

What you report only part of the issue, there are 2 more orderings cases that are ignored
and the above is only a sub part of the desired behaviour,
- The desired behaviour would to be able , to use the real configuration of category (including current filtering if possible), instead of trying to guess / recreate the item list of the category
e.g. use configuration parameter: "include subcategory items" is ignored

Wanted to do this 2 years ago, but now using code of the filtering module it was made just a little less complicated:
- test this build (2015-12-12 nightly):
github.com/FLEXIcontent/flexicontent-cck/releases

It will use ALL category configuration (from which the item link originated, otherwise it will use the main category of the item)
- the current filtering is not included, it is a little more work to add, will do in good (future) time