As always, thank you for your ongoing feedback, support and suggestions!

It's for a shopping site. They have 2,500+ products and sometimes need to change the order of item(s) to group similar items together. We've looked at tags and other ideas but, because there are no hard rules as to when/where items should be grouped, a system that can be used adhoc appears to be the best idea.

Steve's plugin is actually spot-on. The only downside is that is doesn't work across pages.

In this instance adding an option for 3,000 records per view gets around the problem. It is a little sluggish viewing 3,000 items at once, but we only need to use it temporarily while moving the records. It does alter core cmsB files, so I'll have to remember to update it each time I upgrade. If it's possible to add a function to General Settings to change the max number of records per view that would be great. Maybe it should come with a warning that it will affect performance – but most people using cmsB would be at a level that they understand that.

Thanks
Jeff

Just following up on this.  Can you tell me more about the situation where you need to change the order and have thousands of records?  I want to get a better understanding of that to see if there's a solution that's better suited.

Thanks,

Glad to hear it's getting some use, and I appreciate the feedback! I'd noted this as well and plan to have a think on it.

In the meantime, you can easily add values to the per page drop down list by modifying this:
cmsb/lib/menus/default/list.php
Line 180 in latest CMSB v3.61

<?php echo getSelectOptions($metaData['perPage'], array(5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, 1000)); ?>

Just make note of the change for future cmsb upgrades.

Thanks, and please let me know of any other feedback!

Best,
Steve

Thanks again for this plugin. Do you mind if I offer some feedback? I don't want to sound ungrateful!

Lets say I have 2,000 items in my list and I want to move record 2000 to position 1

1. The CMS is set to show 1000 items per page.
2. Page 1 is showing records 2000-1001.
3. I tick record 2000.
4. The Move Record Here link appears.
5. I click page 2 to show records 1000-1 but,
6. Because I am now on a different page the checked record is no longer checked and the 'Move Record Here' does not appear.

Dave, is there a way to add an option for 'All Records' to the 'Per Page' drop down? If not, could you consider this for the next cmsB release?

Andreas - Agreed. For this plugin I was able to utilize the list page "selected records" checkboxes, so unfortunately it wouldn't work for section editor field sorting. However, I do believe that capability is part of the multi-select drag/drop sorting wishlist item Dave wanted to look into.

Best,
Steve

I think it would be useful to apply this function with a section editing as well. Sometimes, you need to move some of the fields of a section to another position within this section, and you must do it one by one. For example, if you want to move them from the top to the bottom of the list, this can be quite frustrating. It would be helpful if you could select more than one of the fields and move them all together to another position. 

Just an idea. 

Andreas

Nice addition, glad you had the time.

Do you mind if I include it as a recipe in my CMSB Cookbook

Thanks,

Jerry Kornbluth

That's very generous of you.

Jeff

I had some time between projects and this utility was of interest. That being said, I've created a plugin I'd like to share with the community called "Move Records Here". It allows you to select multiple records in a manually sorted (dragSortOrder) list section and move them to their new sort position.

Note: This plugin has not been tested with Category type and has built-in checks to not enable for these sections.

Dave checked out the plugin before I put the finishing touches on it. He still plans to look into the multi record drag sort, but this plugin will work as a nice stop-gap.

See attached.

Best,
Steve

Thanks for posting about your interest in this.  I'll have a look at the code for this to see what's involved and then get back to you.  

Playing off the "insert record here" concept, perhaps a "move selected records here" plugin? Action links could appear if records are selected.

Selected records could be moved to their new position, while retaining their respective group order. Would alleviate the need to "drag" over long lists as well.

Best,
Steve

It would be useful on both. On this occasion it was for record list pages. My client has an ecommerce site with 1000+ records in a section editor called 'products'.

They would like to manually group products together. 

I have installed the 'insert item here' plugin that solves the problem when uploading new items, but they have lots of old records that need to be moved.

We've looked into grouping by tag and a 'you may also like feature', but for this particular scenario there are no hard rules as to when the grouping is required.

That's definately on our wishlist.  Were you thinking about the CMS record list pages or the section editors or both?  Where in the CMS did you most want this feature? 

Thanks!

If it doesn't exist would it be possible to create in a plugin?

Thanks