How to sort Collections results

hdace

https://rchsdigitalcollections.epistrophypictures.com

If you click on Browse and then on Street View Archives (which is the Collections table), and then on one of the MHS collections, the results are as expected except for a couple of things.

There is a random set of parentheses above the results. How to get rid of those?

And there is no way to sort the results. It would be nice to have sort options, but not mandatory. The biggest problem is that the houses are listed in idno order instead of title order. The addresses of the houses should be in order.

Please let me know what configuration or php file needs to be edited and the code. Thanks!

darrigan

Hi Hal,
About empty parentheses, it's in this file: /themes/<your_theme>/views/Details/ca_collections_default_html.php
You should have some misconfigured related elements (as related collections).
Send me your file and I'll see if you can get a better display with related photographers, donnors or other collections.😉
For the sorting order, if you mean the sorting order of "collections" when you go to Browse > Street View Archives, it's defined in /themes/<your_theme>/conf/browse.conf in the "collection" part.
If you mean the sorting order elements inside a "collection", as the function that calls objects use the "search" engine, I think it's the same browse.conf file but in the "objects" part.
If you want the images displayed in the alphabetical order of title, you have to put the "Title" at fisrt in the list, like this:

	sortBy = {
			Title = ca_objects.preferred_labels.name,
			Identifier = ca_objects.idno
		},
	sortDirection = {
			Title = asc,
			Identifier = asc
		},

(Clean the cache folder before reloading.)

hdace

Hi Clovis,

I tried the code you suggested but unfortunately it did not work. I'm glad you tried, though, because I had not tried that before.

Local people who go to look for old pictures of their houses will find it odd that the houses are not listed in the order of their addresses. And there's nothing I can do about it! Darn.

Thanks! --Hal

monica

hdace in the collections detail view, add the parameter ‘order => ca_objects.preferred_labels.name’ after the search parameter in caNavUrl function.
On this line in the default theme. https://github.com/collectiveaccess/pawtucket2/blob/dev/2.0/themes/default/views/Details/ca_collections_default_html.php#L133

hdace

Ha! Right after I typed the last one I tried simply deleting the identifier lines, so only the title is listed in the objects section, and this time it did work! Thanks Clovis!

Only trouble is, now all of the search results come up in alphabetical order. It's not terrible, I can live with it. But ideally I would like regular search results to be in identifier order and only Collections objects to be alphabetical. Just can't have everything!

hdace

monica I tried this but it didn't work.
I undid Clovis's suggestion and added your code, making sure the syntax was correct, but the collections detail view still conforms to the previous search results order selection, without being able to select a new results order because there is no selector interface

monica

hdace Hi hdace. Sorry I gave you the wrong parameter to use. It's actually 'sort', and it uses the name of the sort you want from browse.conf

So the code would be

hdace

By the way, this is what that line of code looks like. Maybe I did something wrong...

jquery("#browseresultscontainer").load("<?php print canavurl($this->request, '', 'search', 'objects', array('search' => 'collection_id:^ca_collections.collection_id', 'order' => 'ca_objects.preferred_labels.name'), array('donturlencodeparameters' => true)); ?>", function() {
I also tried it with just ca_objects.preferred_labels (without .name) but that didn't work either

darrigan

Hi Hal, do you flush the cache folder after each modification?

hdace

darrigan Yes I do

hdace

monica That did the trick. Thanks!

darrigan

Thanks for this tip Monica, it could be useful to everyone.