Sorting on Alias

I forgot that our "temporary" table does not have the "alias" column,

i ll disable the alias sorting option for now ...
at least i took chance to update our 'fcordering' parameter element, so the change to disable it will be in 1-2 files

Hello

i have added the alias column to the temporary table and tested it too

please re-download
github.com/FLEXIcontent/flexicontent-cck/tree/3.0.x-stable

and re-test in a testing web-site

Thank you -- I downloaded the linked version and alas it didn't work, but after a little poking I suspected it might not actually be the right one. I found flexicontent-cck-8bc2cda2bf8b4dc150221bd32799a8d473d94d19.zip and tried it as well.

On that one, it seems to be working in both the category-based lists of items and the search results! I only noticed one tiny issue so far, which is just that it doesn't yet have the option to pick alias/alias reverse in the search menu item. This isn't a problem for me, since I can just 'use global', but someone in future might need it.

I've also run into a tangentially-related issue, not new -- is there any good way to tell a search on a custom date field to put items without that field at the end rather than the beginning of the results? One of my types doesn't have the custom date field the other items are primary-sorted by, and I'd like those to show up at the end instead of the beginning.

Thank you again for all your work and help!

Hello

about search order in menu item not showing the option
- we replaced all ordering parameters with the update parameter "fcorder"

will do the same in search menu too, since it does support all ordering
but e.g. in relation field , the field does not support all orderings

effectively all ordering are supported for:
- all category based views
- search view (will update the menu item parameter)
- universal content module

about custom display of search view
- to change the order you need to do a JOOMLA TEMPLATE overrided for file:

component/com_flexicontent/views/.search/tmpl/default_results.php
as
templates/JOOMLA_TMP_NAME/html/com_flexicontent/search/default_results.php

Aha, that makes sense! Thank you.

I've actually already got an override for default_results.php, which is working great for what I made it for, but I've poked around and I'm not sure how to use it to also rearrange where the items of the type that doesn't have the primary sorting field are ordered. Currently the results are like:
Item with no date
Item with no date
Item with no date
Item from 2001
Item from 2003
Item from 2016
Item from 2016

I want to make them be like:
Item from 2001
Item from 2003
Item from 2016
Item from 2016
Item with no date
Item with no date
Item with no date

The dateless ones need to be at the end of the whole list, not just the end of a given page. Admittedly I'm fairly tired at the moment -- am I missing something obvious?

Hello

i have added all orderings to search view menu item too