folder contents - sorting options do not work

[petschki]

choosing any of the sorting options do not work.

[petschki]

erm ... looks like the sort feature is missing in plone.restapi ... at least I didn't find it ...

[tisto]

@petschki there is an option to sort objects in a folder:

https://plonerestapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/content.html#reordering-sub-resources

We had issues with that in the past as well. Will try to find time to write an acceptance test to prove that it is not working.

[petschki]

@tisto yes I saw the reodering part, but that is only for sorting one object within a folder. I've implemented the rearrange functionality here: plone/plone.restapi#813 this also works with the current volto sort PATCH call ...

[lukasgraf]

Hang on - shouldn't this much rather be a sorted query instead of persistent reordering of folder items as is proposed in the plone.restapi pull request?

I don't currently have a whole lot of context of this user interface, but it looking like a folderContents style listing and the menu saying Elemente sortieren nach... I would expect that option to affect displayed sorting, not necessarily to cause a permanent change in the DB.

[petschki]

@lukasgraf that’s what I also thought in the beginning but volto does a sort PATCH call and then a normal GET call with objPositionInParent as sort Index so I interpreted this as the rearrange functionality from the classic folder_contents view.

This should be discussed from an UX point of view here whether this functionality should be done persistent here or a separate rearrange action should be placed somewhere else.

/cc @sneridagh

[lukasgraf]

Gotcha. It's more a UX question then. In English it's spelled "Rearrange", whereas the German "Sortieren nach..." doesn't scream "this will change items in the DB". So maybe something like "Umsortieren", "Neu sortieren nach" or "Neu anordnen" might work better in German.

[ksuess]

Fixed by #1324