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My entry pages have quite a few fields. One of the fields is a “lead image” field. I like this to be at the bottom of the order because it’s the last thing I do when I create an entry. When I want to upload an image the default field in the popup menu for where you’d like to insert the img code is usually the very top field, which is not the image field in my case. Is there any way to set a default field on the popup menu so I don’t have to scroll through lots of entry fields? That way when I click upload the image field is always highlighted. I suppose I could move the image field to the top, but this is inconvenient to my work flow, as I have lots of entries to add and they all follow a certain order.

An easy way to do it isn’t leaping out at me.  The code itself is easy enough to hack- it’s in cp.publish.php around line 9760:

$query = $DB->query("SELECT field_id, field_label FROM exp_weblog_fields WHERE group_id = '".$data['field_group']."' AND field_type NOT IN ('date', 'rel', 'select') ORDER BY field_order");

That’s the code that grabs the fields- and it’s ordering them by field_order.  You could change up the order easily, but I’m not sure what would be an improvement.  Hm- if you dinked with your naming conventions a bit, that would do it.  And I vaguely recall a way to force a sort so that whatever you want is the first returned.  But that’s vague.  Other option is to sort the resulting query array- hm.

But if I needed to do it, that’s where I’d start.

Hmm that seems pretty complicated. I thought there would be an easy fix. Kind of in a crunch now so I’ll try to live with it. Thanks.