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Tried to use Playa and Low Reorder together.

AJ Penninga 2 May 2012 19:59 problem, complete

Hey Low.

As I posted via twitter, I was trying to use Playa and Reorder together.
Previously, playa:parents, playa:children, playa:siblings I could add use the orderby parameter and order my entries (limited by Playa) using my Reorder custom field.

I wasn't quite sure how to figure this out.

After some digging into both Reorder and Playa, I realized that Playa has a few variables that would make passing the entry IDs to an embed very easy.

This was my final solution to get things to work:

[code]
TEMPLATE:
{exp:channel:entries channel="solution_categories" dynamic="no" limit="1" url_title="{segment_2}"}
{embed="solutions/_category_parents" entry_ids="{exp:playa:parent_ids}"}
{/exp:channel:entries}

EMBED:
{exp:low_reorder:entries set="1" entry_id="{embed:entry_ids}"}
...
{/exp:low_reorder:entries}
[/code]

So, thanks for the help and the sweet docs!

Replies

1. Low 2 May 2012 20:14

   Yeah, the orderby="" method won't work anymore. I will add a {exp:low_reorder:entry_ids} tag to output a pipe-delimited list of ordered entry_ids, which might help in the future.

2. Low 8 May 2012 09:07

   v2.0.2 gives you the Entry IDs tag.

3. AJ Penninga 8 May 2012 13:03

   Awesome! Thanks for the quick work!

4. gcman105 19 Nov 2012 14:29

   Hi, could you please show me how to get this to work now?
   
   <div class="products">
{exp:playa:parents field="product_collections" orderby="product_display_sort_order" sort="asc"}
<div class="a_product">
{if product_detail_image}
<a href="{path=product}/{url_title}">
<img class="product_detail_image" src={product_detail_image}"{path}_width310/{filename}.{extension}"{/product_detail_image} width="230px" border="0" alt="{title}" title="{title}" />
</a>
{if:else}
<img src="/images/wg/picture_soon.jpg" width="230px" height="175px" />
{/if}
{if editors_pick}
<div class="editors_pick">
<img src="/images/wg/editors_pick.png" class="editors_pick" alt="editors pick" />
</div> <!-- editors_pick -->
{/if}
<h3><a href="{path=product}/{url_title}">{title}</a></h3>
</div> <!-- a_product -->
{/exp:playa:parents}
</div> <!-- products -->

   
   It worked fine until I updated LowReorder, and I'm not sure what to do to get it working again.
   
   I have created a Gist at https://gist.github.com/4110933

5. Low 19 Nov 2012 14:56

   The new Low Reorder doesn't use a dedicated field type anymore. Lots of upsides, but your example is a downside. To work around it, use an embed. In the main template:
   
   

   {embed="group/ordered_list" entry_ids="{exp:playa:parent_ids field="product_collections"}"}

   
   
   In the embedded template (group/ordered_list):
   
   

   {exp:low_reorder:entries set="1" entry_id="{embed:entry_ids}"} 
    ... 
    {/exp:low_reorder:entries}

6. gcman105 19 Nov 2012 18:07

   Perfect.
   
   Problem solved.
   
   Thank you.