Re: [Krang-general] Changing Story ID sort order in Krang UI

[Mark P. <Mar...@uf...>]

Thanks Michael.  I tried using both our addons in 3.01 and at least one of
them keeps Krang from appearing properly.  I know that one of our addons
includes a skin which is not compatable, however, even I set the krang.conf
skin setting to Default the UI still doesn't appear properly.  So I might
have to forgo that addon altogether.  Which becomes an issue with our
BulkMail addon.  It seems to depend on some stuff from the UFT addon.
Bottom line is need to extrapolate the files that BulkMail is looking for
from the UFT addon and roll them up into a new version of the BulkMail.
Then I can test it in 3.01.

So in 3.02 these types of preferences will be available?  Any word on when
3.02 will be avail?

Mark T. Pearson
Manager of Web Administration
UFT Welfare Fund
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Peters [mailto:mp...@pl...] 
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 1:51 PM
To: Mark Pearson
Cc: 'kra...@li...'
Subject: Re: [Krang-general] Changing Story ID sort order in Krang UI

Mark Pearson wrote:

> Just wondering how easy it would be change the default sort order for
> the Story ID when in the ‘Find Story’ section.  I know that it is just a
> simple click to change the order from Ascending to Descending but we are
> getting an overwhelming request to change it to Descending.  It looks
> like it’s under the Story.pm module but I just can’t figure out how to
> change it.

Do you want to do it the easy way (quick and dirty) or the hard way (more
maintainable across Krang upgrades)? The quick and dirty approach is to open
$KRANG_ROOT/lib/Krang/CGI/Story.pm and look in the find() method where
HTMLPager
is being used. Then set the default_sort_order_desc parameter to 1. Then
restart
Krang.

The hard way is actually much harder. It involves changing your addon to
override Krang::CGI::Story's find() method. But since the method is pretty
monolithic it would basically be copying it into your new module and then
changing it like I showed above. In fact, since there's no easy way to
override
just this little bit in your addon, your addon is quite brittle and may
break
with future Krang upgrades. So it maybe not be all that much "better".

I've wanted for some time to add a preference option where you could decide
if
you wanted to sort descendingly by id by default for all searches. Shouldn't
really be to hard to add to Krang itself. So maybe you can do the quick and
dirty approach for now and if you ever upgrade to 3.02 it will be there for
your
users to choose for themselves.

-- 
Michael Peters
Developer
Plus Three, LP


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