Back-end ordering glitchy

Yes, it starts with 2 and then I save and 3 items get the same position and if I save again it's 4 and so on. And apart from that some items that I'm trying to reorder get stuck and don't reorder despite saving. So every time I try to correct the order, the order is still incorrect and additionally more and more items get the position 21.
Agata

When

if you have never saved the order of a category view
then all items will have order 0

- i did save the above case, with multiple pages and it worked correctly!

i think the problem, is that items in subquent pages you had many items with non-zero order, which will not be reorder, and instead they are added to the first page

e.g. you had/have many items with order 2, that continued to subquent page

Hello

but after saving just once, all items will get a unique item order, i have tested this too

Hello

but after saving just once, all items will get a unique item order, i have tested this too

do the items have the same language and are all of these in "Published" state ?


There was a fix in backend items manager ordering but that was in v3.0.5

Hello,
I understand you need to make sure first that this really is a bug and not me doing something wrong. But I have been using Flexicontent extensively for years and I always assume first that something is a user error (especially since this was brought to my attention by the client managing the website so obviously assumed it must have been something they did but then I was able to recreate the error myself). I know all the odds and ends of re-ordering, I know initially all items have a position of 0, I know that when you first click the save button they get their consecutive positions.

I did a test just now and added 3 test articles. Initially they landed at the top of the list with a position 0. I had the listing set to a single category, don't include subcategories, ordered by the column Order, 20 results per page. I changed the 0s to 24, 25 and 26 so that the new items landed on the second page. This is what happens:
www.dropbox.com/s/2swdzkksgdsfupb/Screen...%20at%2009.16.13.png
The test articles aren't exactly in the position where I wanted them but that's not a problem, I can fine-tune that. But notice that already at this point two items have the position 21.

I re-arranged the test articles, saved and what I got is three articles with the position 21
www.dropbox.com/s/6bqzitvb4m305q2/Screen...%20at%2009.16.34.png

I saved again and got four articles with the position 21
www.dropbox.com/s/i5sb85bqaqavv1t/Screen...%20at%2009.17.00.png

This time I displayed all the 60+ articles and clicked the save button again. The items got their unique consecutive positions but as you can see, the ones that used to have the position 21 are now not ordered correctly (they used to be alphabetical)
www.dropbox.com/s/950e2gjjweh4az2/Screen...%20at%2009.20.54.png

Before you ask me why I can't just set them to be ordered alphabetically, the client wants a few items to display at the top and then the rest alphabetically so I need a custom order. This is a glitch that I can recreate as you can see from the screenshots. I know this is a weird one and I'm glad that at least when listing all articles it seems to work correctly but on a website with dozens of items, being able to order per page is very handy.
Thanks,
Agata

Hello

are you saving "FLEXIcontent" order or "Joomla" order ?

i cannot replicate this, please update to v3.0.8 and send me a PM with admin access and suggest a category ID to use for testing this