Manual ordering in Structure with filtered views?

[alexander-dal]

Hi everyone,

I’m working with a Structure section called Publications. Each publication has an Entries field called Research Group, which links it to one Research Group. Each Research Group (a Channel section with its own pages) includes a module that automatically displays the related Publications.

The challenge
The order of Publications is important and needs to be manually controlled (i.e. via drag & drop in the Structure). However, since all Publications from all Research Groups live in the same Structure, the list becomes quite large and hard to manage. To make this easier, I tried creating custom views filtering by a specific Research Group.

The problem
While filtered views improve usability, they remove the ability to reorder entries within the Structure. This means I can’t maintain the manual sorting when working in a filtered context.

Question
Is there any way to maintain manual ordering of entries in a Structure while also working within a filtered view? Or is the only option to always manually filter within the default Structure view when reordering?

Version: CraftCMS 5.9.23

[alexander-dal]

It's exactly this use case but for pre-filtered views: #17774