TOPIC: Category ordering to backend

this relates to the planned " sub-categories " addition, but is something we could use already now:

if you add categories as the need arises or when people in your forum suggest:

food
drinks
dancing
pub

then people suggest you need to have pizza, italian, chinese as food categories - you'd currently label them as

food-generic
food-pizza
food-italian
food-chinese

but, in the categories view they'd be shown in the order you've added the categories in.

Looks pretty ugly that way...

category & sub-category level ordering hereby requested!

The same way as in Joomla's content manager ( www.YOURDOMAIN.COM/administrator/index.php?option=com_content )

example of bad ordering here: www.kalamies.com/kalastajan-kalastuspisteet.html

Go to the settings in the layout tab -> categories sort by... Does this solve your problem?

Daniel, sure, it would help... if one would make sure the categories are named in a similar manner that need to be kept together. Or that gaterories are added together so they'd keep together.

try adding food categories pizza, chinese, thai and then dozens of other non-food categories, like night clubs, discos, then one food category that just became hot, then other categories that have nothing to do with food, then yet another trendy food category.

After a while you'll notice that none of the backend sorting options can keep those food categories together...

Take a look at how Ignite Gallery (and a lot of other components) have organized this, see the attached image.

This kind of sorting options allow individual category ordering. This is really handy when you add the sub-categories.

So you just want a custom sorting - just like the one available in com_content (articles)

Well... nope. Once you start the sub-category feature planning YOU want this custom ordering

Just see the first post of this thread and you'll see that this is exactly what I was proposing...