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Hi,

The documentation states: “Ordering by a Relationship type custom field will cause entries to appear in the order the relationships were made, not based on any content from the related entries.”

Is there a way around this?

I have an online news website, that uses related entries to link news articles to editions in which they appear. When viewing an edition, I would like to order the news articles by a “display_order” field.

Thanks,
Paul

Documentation quote is from this page: http://expressionengine.com/docs/modules/weblog/parameters.html

Actually, I may’ve misread that documentation page. I am ordering by a normal custom field, not a relationship field.

But the orderby tag still doesn’t seem to work for me. Here is my code:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="editions" limit="1"}
    
    {reverse_related_entries orderby="display_order"}
        {display_order} - {title}
            
    {/reverse_related_entries}

{/exp:weblog:entries}

What version and build of EE are you using? What does display_order contain? In what order are your entries displayed?

EE Version is 1.6.7 Build:  20090211

Display order (display_order) is a text input. Values have leading zeros (01-11), which has worked for ordering the articles on other pages (when not being accessed through reverse related entries).

The results seem to be ordered by the rel_id from the exp_relationships table. (This is also the value of the “in_edition” relationship field, if printed out)

(“in_edition” is a relationship field for articles, that is linked to the “editions” section, so the user can choose one of the editions the article appears in.)

Hope that makes sense.
Paul

I tried deleting and recreating the “display_order” and “in_newsletter” fields, and that has fixed the problem.

(I changed the type of in_newsletter from drop-down to relationship during the development, so that may’ve caused problems)

Thanks for your time
Paul

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