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#130801

Hi,

I run a news website, and sometimes we need to reorder the top stories by changing the publication date, but it doesn’t work and it seems that the script relies instead on story IDs, not the publication date.

So ID 194 will always appear before 195, even if we changed the creation/publication date & time.

How can I modify the code so that Janews_FP is based on publication date instead of story ID?

Thanks,
-gouaf

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#259518

<em>@gouaf 66202 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi,

I run a news website, and sometimes we need to reorder the top stories by changing the publication date, but it doesn’t work and it seems that the script relies instead on story IDs, not the publication date.

So ID 194 will always appear before 195, even if we changed the creation/publication date & time.

How can I modify the code so that Janews_FP is based on publication date instead of story ID?

Thanks,
-gouaf</blockquote>

Hi gouaf,

The default order is indeed chronological, but if you go to the FrontPage Manager

administrator => Content => Front Page Manager

you see those up and down arrows associate with each article. Just order them as you desire by playing with those arrows, move one up, move one down.

Cornelio

N.B.
1. You do not have to change the publication date.
2. The ID tags the article => that is what the computer can relate with

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1. gouaf
2. ragnarli

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#259522

Thanks a lot Cornelio, it works just as you suggested!!!
-gouaf

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#259523

<em>@gouaf 66224 wrote:</em><blockquote>Thanks a lot Cornelio, it works just as you suggested!!!
-gouaf</blockquote>

Glad to be of help ouaf. May I use this for aQ&A project for the Collaborative Support Group? Thanks.

Cornelio

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#259524

Sure go ahead.

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#259525

It is a more realistic situation,, what people are confronted with, what solutions they are trying to do

Rather than simply asking:

How do I order the articles in the JA Front Page?

Cornelio

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#261684

<em>@cgc0202 66218 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi gouaf,

The default order is indeed chronological, but if you go to the FrontPage Manager

administrator => Content => Front Page Manager

you see those up and down arrows associate with each article. Just order them as you desire by playing with those arrows, move one up, move one down.

Cornelio

N.B.
1. You do not have to change the publication date.
2. The ID tags the article => that is what the computer can relate with</blockquote>

Hi, this works on the Front page manager, as Cornelio suggests, but playing around with the arrows in a section doesn’t seem to have the same effect. In the Content =>Content by section=> Section items menu changing the order with the arrows have no effect when viewing the Home->Section page at the Front end.

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#261706

<em>@ragnarli 68847 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi, this works on the Front page manager, as Cornelio suggests, but playing around with the arrows in a section doesn’t seem to have the same effect. In the Content =>Content by section=> Section items menu changing the order with the arrows have no effect when viewing the Home->Section page at the Front end.</blockquote>

That is true ragnarli, if you go to the Modules manager

for Joomla 1.5

administrator => Extensions => JA News manager

there is also an order form to change the mechanism. I always place mine in Order, the others are creation date or edit date, something like that. Find, and try it.

Unfortunately, to my knowledge, placing it in “Order” alone does not seem to allow you to change the order. You are left with but the two other choices. Both of them, not always what you want.

If you use Gavick News Module — you have at least six different choices and they work. So, this one area that Joomlart did not give much more careful consideration

Cornelio

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#262585

Hi Cornelio,
The bug, you mentioned here with JA News, does exist under Joomla 1.0.15 too. JA News doesn’t react on its own ordering options (ordering, create date, modified date), but in all cases do an article ordering by the create date atribute!!
Attila

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#262588

<em>@mabao 69933 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi Cornelio,
The bug, you mentioned here with JA News, does exist under Joomla 1.0.15 too. JA News doesn’t react on its own ordering options (ordering, create date, modified date), but in all cases do an article ordering by the create date atribute!!
Attila</blockquote>

That’s true Attila,

It is not exactly a bug, Joomlart just did not give you the option to be able to order that in the JA News, the way a Gavick Pro News Module allows you to do so. Should you shift to Gavick Pro then? Not really, if you want a Magazine template, only two template companies right now have it. The first is Joomlart, and early July 2008, RocketTheme came out with its version. I still prefer JA Teline II.

Maybe Joomlart will come around improving the choices for ordering in the future. I just do not know when; so I am not holding my breath on that.

Cornelio

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#263203

Hi Cornelio,
On this issue I’ve got a very quick fix from hainn84, you can follow this: http://www.joomlart.com/forums/topic/ja-news-for-joomla-1-0/
with an updated file!! http://www.joomlart.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2311&d=1217235656
Attila

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