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kblm
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Mar 16, 2009, 1:28 PM

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Just getting started using Instant Realty and so far I'm impressed. Overall a very nice product and easy to use.

One thing I don't see that was built in is the ability to specify the sort order of the home listings. I see where you can hide a listing or where you can make one listing be at the top.

What we would really like to see is the ability to do the drag and drop of all the listings into the order we want them displayed on the site.

Any idea on how easy this is to implement? Any idea on if it's easy to implement something simple....maybe without the drag and drop, but just a numbering system?

Thanks.

-Kevin


Donna
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Mar 16, 2009, 3:48 PM

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Hi there,

There are a few ways you can change how IRW displays the order. By default, it will show "featured" listings first, then order the rest by when it was last updated. You can change this by going into the Admin, then Section Editors, and modifying the "listings" menu. From here, select "Sorting" and you can change the sort order to any other field.

One other thing you can do is add a drag & drop field. To do this, in the same page, scroll down to the list of fields and add "dragSortOrder" (without the quotes, but it's case sensitive) as a field, with the type set to "none".

Then, click the "General" tab (on the same page, up at the top) add "dragSortOrder" as the first field in the ListPage Fields, and then in the "Sorting" tab, change the "Order By" field to "dragSortOrder".

Note that this would drop the "featured listing" ability, so you could then delete that field.

You can now drag & drop your listings to show up in whatever order you want them in. :)

Donna

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kblm
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Mar 16, 2009, 3:57 PM

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Donna,

Thanks for the quick reply. I'll try this out and let you know how it goes.

-Kevin


kblm
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Mar 16, 2009, 4:08 PM

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Hi there,

There are a few ways you can change how IRW displays the order. By default, it will show "featured" listings first, then order the rest by when it was last updated. You can change this by going into the Admin, then Section Editors, and modifying the "listings" menu. From here, select "Sorting" and you can change the sort order to any other field.

One other thing you can do is add a drag & drop field. To do this, in the same page, scroll down to the list of fields and add "dragSortOrder" (without the quotes, but it's case sensitive) as a field, with the type set to "none".

Then, click the "General" tab (on the same page, up at the top) add "dragSortOrder" as the first field in the ListPage Fields, and then in the "Sorting" tab, change the "Order By" field to "dragSortOrder".

Note that this would drop the "featured listing" ability, so you could then delete that field.

You can now drag & drop your listings to show up in whatever order you want them in. :)


Donna,

Wow. It worked perfectly. That was easy! Great system for implementing the drag and drop ordering.

Thanks so much!

-Kevin


Donna
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Mar 16, 2009, 4:25 PM

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Glad to hear it worked! Let us know if you have any other questions or concerns. :)

Donna

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