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If I have something like this:

{exp:weblog:categories weblog="departments" style="linear" category_group="not 14" parent_only="yes"}
<div class="CR2a1-departmentNavigation-internal border linkbox">
    {category_description}

</div>
{/exp:weblog:categories}

How can I (or can I?) sort the output alphabetically? adding sort=“asc” didn’t do anything. The order the department categories categories have been entered into the system is unfortunately not alphabetical order, so I’d need to sort them on output instead.

Thanks!

You can change the sort order in the Category Management area of the CP - that will be reflected on the public site.  You have options for “alphabetical” or “custom” where you can use arrows to manually set the order.

Lisa, thanks for response.

Shucks! I now realize I should’ve probably set up the categories in a slightly different manner. I have top level categories set up as category groups rather than categories in one cateogory group. Instead, I should’ve set up multiople top level categories in one category group (as would make sense). This sorting issue may be the only casualty of the incorrect setup, however, so I need to evaluate whether it’s worth changing (it would potentially result in too many coding changes).

May have to create the menu manually, for now. 😛

Depending on the scope of the issue and the reason you chose category groups over a single category group it may be worth taking the time to stop, go back, and do it right before moving on.  Getting it ‘right” from the beginning can be a great help - and that’s definitely not unique to EE 😉

Yes, I need to determine whether I chose category groups over grouper top level categories from ignorance, or whether there was some design decision I’ve forgotten about by now. 😊

I expect there to be some level of rewrite for 2.0 (of the site, not EE), so that’s the second consideration - whether it’s easier to do then, or do it now.

There won’t be any need to do a rewrite from 2.0’s perspective.  You can choose to coincide a redesign then but EE won’t require it.  Just fyi.

Yeah, I know - that’s why I said “rewrite for 2.0 (of the site, not EE)”. With closer inspection it turns out it was a design decision which, from the hind-sight, could’ve been accomplished the other way, too. However, the sorting was easy to fix with couple of lines of PHP, and changing the grouping of the categories would require fundamental changes to the site, so I let it be for now.