Photo Gallery categories order

Hi,

just reminding this thread, to see if someone knows how to do this?

Thx, M

This thread probably should have been in How to or one of the general help forums.

However

I use orderby=”entry_date”. Is your orderby pointing to the correct field name?

Sorry I am not one of the EE Guru’s here.

Hi,

that type of ordering doesn’t seem to change anything in the gallery. I’vre tried several things, but all stay the same.

M

Hi, that type of ordering doesn’t seem to change anything in the gallery. I’vre tried several things, but all stay the same. M

I checked my photo gallery setup to see what I had that I know worked

{exp:gallery:entries gallery="{gallery_name}"  orderby="title" sort="asc" columns="4" rows="10"}

You have to ensure the gallery_name variable is populated

I have this in the first line of the categories template

{assign_variable:gallery_name="Picturealbum"}

to show you that my template is working here is the gallery

http://www.ussalgolaka54.org/index.php/Agolpictures/category/

I am not doing all of the fancy things others are doing here.

Thx, but you are refering to the display of the pictures. I’m talking about the list of categories. Any idea how that can be sorted (In the CP we have Alphabetical and custom, but I’d like it to be sorted on entry date).

Sorry, I misunderstood your intent.

Are you looking to have it sort by date so you can list categories with newest items at the bottom since you indicated ASC as the sort order?

exactly, newest categories should be at the top, but asc nor desc work.

I spent a bit researching this last night and I am not sure you are going to be able do this with EE directly. I don’t think EE has this ability on categories. You may have to use SQL to build in this manner since I believe the sorting only works on the category information which is the name and description. It appears the date information is pulled from the pictures table

I would advise you to ask this information in the How do I area as you may get more response.

I do apologize I was not able to assist you in this.

For anyone else who may stumble across this thread, I used the following query to get the categories to display in the order they are listed in the CP:

{exp:query sql="SELECT cat_id FROM exp_gallery_categories WHERE gallery_id= '1' ORDER BY cat_order;" }