# Sorting and reparenting patch **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [October 19, 2006, 2:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sorting-and-reparenting-patch/72808 "2006-10-19T02:01:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b5a626/32.png) [@lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lorenjohnson)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 2:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sorting-and-reparenting-patch/72808/1 "2006-10-19T02:01:56Z")
I’m within a week of deploying a major website release for a client using Radiant. I’ve worked hard to not modify any of the Radiant core directly (made a few plugin behaviors, etc.) so that I could keep on- track with future updates. However, I really could use manual page sorting and the ability to move pages around in the tree. After a bit of looking around I see this patch: [http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/ticket/179](http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/ticket/179) Can someone give me a hint as to how I would apply this patch or other patches (I’m currently installed from gem with --unpack) without forever fouling my current radiant install? Or if that is exactly what it would do, when is a new official release likely that might include this functionality? I appreciate all the help. I’m a RoR, Radiant and SVN nuby (it’s been a busy few weeks). Thanks, Loren J. removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b5a626/32.png) [@lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lorenjohnson)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 3:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sorting-and-reparenting-patch/72808/2 "2006-10-19T03:36:02Z")
On 10/18/06, Loren J. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > After a bit of looking around I see this patch: > > I appreciate all the help. I’m a RoR, Radiant and SVN nuby (it’s been a busy > few weeks). The patch is waiting for someone to clean it up to the point where it can be accepted. I tried my hand at it but while I can get it to apply cleanly to trunk, I don’t know squat about Rails internals and for all I know it’s an ugly hack. I did locally apply the re-ordering portion of the patch and it’s been working fine, however I wouldn’t recommend this unless you want to deal with upgrading a patched tree or don’t plan on upgrading at all. -Tom ---
**Author:** ![lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b5a626/32.png) [@lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lorenjohnson)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 10:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sorting-and-reparenting-patch/72808/3 "2006-10-20T22:37:13Z")
Tom von Schwerdtner wrote: > On 10/18/06, Loren J. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > After a bit of looking around I see this patch: > > > > I appreciate all the help. I’m a RoR, Radiant and SVN nuby (it’s been a busy > > few weeks). > > The patch is waiting for someone to clean it up to the point where it > can be accepted. I tried my hand at it but while I can get it to > apply cleanly to trunk, I don’t know squat about Rails internals and > for all I know it’s an ugly hack. > > I did locally apply the re-ordering portion of the patch and it’s been > working fine, however I wouldn’t recommend this unless you want to > deal with upgrading a patched tree or don’t plan on upgrading at all. > > -Tom For the record, and I don’t have time to explore why this was happening properly, but somehow magically (in the bad way) this patch seemed to break the automatic (javascript) populating of the Slug and Breadcrumbs from the Title on a new article. I started over from a fresh 0.5.2 install and everything started working again. Other than that the patch looked to be working great. Yes, the icons are ugly and the labels for moving and reparenting were far less than intuitive, but all the functionality was there. I’d sure love to see this cleaned-up and into a release but don’t quiet feel qualified yet to do that work. Maybe in a month or two I’ll come back around to it if nobody else does. Loren ---
**Author:** ![lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b5a626/32.png) [@lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lorenjohnson)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 2:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sorting-and-reparenting-patch/72808/4 "2006-10-28T02:56:50Z")
That was my work. To be honest I have not checked see if it applies to the current version. I doubt it does. You would also need the full src tree in your app as it was not based on the plug in version. I need to get back to it as I would like to update some of my current sites that are using it. It is probably something that needs to be in the core. I have not looked at the new plug system but since it changes the ‘Pages’ tab some I don’t think that it would. The changes is makes fairly minor. It adds a sort value It changes the default value to the new sort value used by the sort method. It adds a set of methods for changing the sort value It adds methods to reparent up and down. John if I make a new version of this can it be considered for the Core? ---
**Author:** ![lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b5a626/32.png) [@lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lorenjohnson)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 5:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sorting-and-reparenting-patch/72808/5 "2006-10-28T05:22:59Z")
Erik B. Ordway wrote: > John if I make a new version of this can it be considered for the Core? I will definitely consider it for the core, but it should be polished and ready to go. – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
**Author:** ![lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b5a626/32.png) [@lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lorenjohnson)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sorting-and-reparenting-patch/72808/6 "2006-11-07T10:55:43Z")
That was a merging of bodhi sort order work and my re-parenting code. His sort stuff is great but the interface does not working IE. It is based on removing the table based layout and replacing it with a list + css based one. It is much nicer. I’ll try to get around to updating one or the other in the next week. If some one could come up with better icons that would be great. We hired a new CSS geek as of late and I might be able to get him to make the list + css layout working in IE. ---
**Author:** ![lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b5a626/32.png) [@lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lorenjohnson)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sorting-and-reparenting-patch/72808/7 "2006-11-07T10:46:06Z")
I ended up using more of this code instead: [http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/ticket/199](http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/ticket/199) It seems a lot cleaner now just using drag-and-drop for sorting and re-parenting. It isnt accesible for screen-readers, but that is usually not an issue. It works great if you have a mouse.