Ordering & Filters

[Paul West]

Hi Chris,

Ordering:

Would it be possible to set default order for content types and contents to be ordered by name rather than ID/created within the admin views?

Usercase: When creating  new content I have 10 content types now and it presents them in no logical order for our copywriter. 

Filtering:

I also think the "contents list" view could be improved as this is going to be a page most users are on for editing pages. I noticed you don't use Cakes pagination for column ordering any reason for this? 

Drop down filtering by content type and Language would be really nice. The functionality is there already for content type via the search but would be far more user friendly if you could select them via a drop down. If I get time I will do a pull request and try and add this in for you if that's OK?

Note: I have Hyphens in my content type names if I include these in the search I get no results, removing the hyphen returns the correct results

Thanks,

Paul

[Chris]

Hi there,

You are right, for what I see here, seems I forgot to include some default ordering clause so content are ordered by ID.

However, most CMS shows content lists ordered by modification date, so in the first page you see the latest content published in your site.

I think we can work in some sort of Filtering Form interface. Feel free to comment or send any PR at github repo, contributions are always welcome :)

The hyphen thing, it's probably a bug with the Search engine plugin. You cn try using double quotes, for instance "my-content-type".

But I would need more information, as the problem can be located at the search process itself or the indexing (words extractor) process. You can also try opening an issue ticket describing the problem ;)

Best regards,