Understanding sets in Reorder
Hi Lodewijk,
About Low Reorder: nice follow-up on Elwins, which I have used the last four years. Since moving up to EE 2.x Low Reorder is a very good replacement.
At first it was a bit frightening in replacing exp:channel with exp:low_reorder but it works alright.
It was a bit hard for me to get a picture what a set is, what it does and how it is used. Maybe a few examples in the documentation would have helped a lot to give me faster a picture of the possibilities. Now it was a bit of try and error. However once you see it there's a lot more the before.
One question:
What happens when an entry has a category, reorder is set to ‘show entries per single category’ and I have not yet saved a reorder? Is it displayed and in which place?
Suggestion:
When making/editing a entry: add an extra tab for immediate reordering the newly added entry in the list belonging to the chosen category.
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Low 21 Aug 2012 13:59
Hi Ron,
To try and clarify further; a Set is just that. A set (or collection) of entries that you can put in any order. It's basically any channel:entries tag with parameters applied (channel, status, category, show_expired, show_future_entries and search:field params). Using the {exp:low_reorder:entries} tag will just call the channel:entries tag with those filters already in place. If EE had an extension hook to do this without having to use a custom tag, I'd use that. But alas, no such hook.
Anyway, as for your question, when you create a new set, a default order will be initiated, based on entry date. Any new entries will either be appended or prepended to the set, depending on the set's "new entries" option.
And as for you suggestion; I've looked into it, but this is practically impossible. An entry can belong to multiple sets, depending on filter settings. You'd have to re-check all possible entry values to get to the right set... It's just a huge can of worms I'm not going to open. :)