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Can I use LowReorder to filter entries without dragging each entries?

Evis 15 Aug 2016 19:10 question, complete

Hi! I'm new to low reorder and got a quick question before I implement this on my website.

I will have a news page with a list of entries from different channels. The news page will have a horizontal navigation that filters results sorted by:
Latest | Most Viewed | Recently Updated | Upload Date | Featured

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If "featured" can I use the ee status featured?

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1. Low 16 Aug 2016 07:24

   Well, if you don't want a custom order, there's really no point in using Low Reorder. You can use the channel:entries and low_reorder:entries interchangeably, if need be.
   
   You can create a Low Reorder Set which only contains Featured entries, yes. But for the custom order, you will need do drag/drop the entries, or else new entries will just be appended or prepended to the list, depending on the Set's settings.

   Evis 17 Aug 2016 12:54

   Ok that sounds good, so here is the situation, I have entries with 3 statuses Recommended, Featured and Awarded
   
   Each status compose of more than 5 but I want to customize and only 5 entries per status above. So I should create set for Featured, Awarded and Recommended and select the 5 entries that should be on top 5, so how do I code that to only limit to the top 5?

   Low 18 Aug 2016 07:22

   You would need some way of differentiating between the entries you want to order, and which ones you don't, not counting the limit="" parameter.
   
   For example, a custom field that you can toggle on and off so it appears in the Reorder set. You will have to manually turn that off/on per entry and order the list to your liking after each of those changes.
   
   If you create a Set of entries based on status alone, and choose 'prepend' for new entries, then limit the output of the list to 5, then the 5 'newest' entries will be shown, but you could also do that with the native channel:entries tag.