# Manual page sorting in admin view **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [September 24, 2006, 9:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/manual-page-sorting-in-admin-view/69834 "2006-09-24T21:26:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tom\_von\_Schwerdtner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@Tom\_von\_Schwerdtner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tom_von_Schwerdtner)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 9:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/manual-page-sorting-in-admin-view/69834/1 "2006-09-24T21:26:25Z")
This in part comes from my desire (like others) to generate tree-style navigation for a website, and (personally) to improve generated sitemaps. This might introduces more complication than the end-result warrants, but I’ll toss it out there anyway. What I’m thinking about (and unskillfully hacking at) is the ability to manually sort the admin view via DnD and to have \ use this ordering. After some poking around, it looks like it would require these changes: 1. A new ‘position’ column in the pages table. 2. upon creation, a page would be given a position of parent.children.count - any virtual pages. This would put new pages at the botom of the list (instead of placing them by title). 3. upon page deletion, any siblings with greater position would need that value decremented 4. a reposition method 5. tweaks to the page index view to allow the re-ordering, and some kinda no-JS fallback up/down arrows. There is quite likely more code it would touch… so I ask: does anyone want this and would it be worth it? -Tom ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_von\_Schwerdtner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@Tom\_von\_Schwerdtner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tom_von_Schwerdtner)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 9:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/manual-page-sorting-in-admin-view/69834/2 "2006-09-24T21:46:29Z")
I think anyone would like that (me for sure). There was some talk of dnd ordering in the list some time ago, check the archives, and it was mostly positive talking 🙂 2006/9/24, Tom von Schwerdtner [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_von\_Schwerdtner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@Tom\_von\_Schwerdtner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tom_von_Schwerdtner)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 10:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/manual-page-sorting-in-admin-view/69834/3 "2006-09-24T22:28:33Z")
On 24/09/06, Tom von Schwerdtner [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > generate tree-style navigation for a website > … > improve generated sitemaps > … > sort the admin view via DnD and \ use this ordering. Those 3 features sound awesome and very useful IMO. The Drag-n-Drop feature would be an interface nicety even if it didn’t do anything practical! 🙂 Would you be using scripalicious for this or another JS library? – Regards, Dave ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_von\_Schwerdtner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@Tom\_von\_Schwerdtner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tom_von_Schwerdtner)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 11:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/manual-page-sorting-in-admin-view/69834/4 "2006-09-24T23:08:41Z")
On 9/24/06, Dave C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Would you be using scripalicious for this or another JS library? scriptalicious, but I’m new to Rails so maybe I just don’t know any better 🙂 -Tom ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_von\_Schwerdtner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@Tom\_von\_Schwerdtner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tom_von_Schwerdtner)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 11:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/manual-page-sorting-in-admin-view/69834/5 "2006-09-24T23:16:42Z")
There is a patch for this, actually two I believe, but it is a little rough around the edges. For one thing, it breaks the CSS for the Snippets and Layouts pages, though this is easily fixed. I have used this patch on pretty much every site lately, as it makes them much nicer to use. Here is a link: [http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/ticket/199](http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/ticket/199) If in anyone is interested in cleaning the patch up and trying to get it into the core, I would be willing to help. I have most of the CSS problems solved, but have not looked at the second reparenting patch. The biggest problem is switching John’s very nice table over to an unordered list, but this is accomplished in the patch. The entire page index page needs to be changed, but this work is mostly done. Keith B.