sanity-plugin-order-documents

Order your Sanity documents via drag-and-drop.

Installation

To install the plugin, navigate to the root directory of your Sanity Studio project and run:

sanity install order-documents

Then, open sanity.json and append "order-documents" to the "plugins" array:

"plugins": [
  "order-documents"
],

Now, when you run sanity start, you should see the "Order Documents" tab in the top navigation bar.

Usage

To save a custom order, you'll need to add a hidden order field inside the schema file of any document type you want to order.

For example, to add order to the "movie" type, go into ./schemas/movie.js and add:

fields: [
  // other fields,
  {
    name: "order",
    title: "Order",
    type: "number",
    hidden: true,
  },
],

Now, when we query our dataset, we can order the results according to the order property.

For example, to query movies using Sanity's query language GROQ, we can write:

*[_type == "movie"] | order(order asc)

Our custom order has been saved, and it will be reflected in the result!

Development

To develop this plugin, clone it into a local directory. Then, navigate to the root of the cloned repository and run:

yarn
yarn link
yarn start

Next, navigate to a Sanity Studio project and run:

yarn link "sanity-plugin-order-documents"

Open sanity.json in the Sanity Studio project and append "order-documents" to the "plugins" array:

"plugins": [
  "order-documents"
],

We're already watching our plugin for changes, so all that's left is to run our Sanity Studio with sanity start.

Limitations

Right now, this plugin can be used to order the 100 most recently edited documents of a particular type. If you'd like to help add support for larger collections, consider contributing!

Contributing

I'd welcome any contributions, from fixing a typo to something more substantial. You can raise a PR in the project's GitHub repository.