16 May 2013, 0:37

Hi all:

I'm trying to work out sustainable ways to tweak the ordering of files in a folder. I'm working in 1.6.

If you rename files in the online folder, it seems that files starting a,b,c...come before files starting 1,2,3...

This seems odd to me, given alphanumeric conventions in Windows Explorer, for example. Is this a feature or a bug?

Looking forward, are there plans for making it easier to arrange files in folders for display, such as by drag and drop? This would have the added advantage of reducing "noise" in file titles. And Image Gallery would benefit also, I think. This issue comes up often for slideshows.

Happy to file a bug report if that would be helpful, or be pointed to an existing bug that I can vote for...

Looking back, I seem to remember that renaming files once they were already online used to have no effect - you had to rename them before you uploaded them, so we are better off!

16 May 2013, 14:24

Hello Don,

It sounds like the alphabetical sorting needs to be fixed. Sometimes small letters come only after all capitals are listed. That's an often heard bug. So yes, please file your bug.

As for the file browser, there is https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/732462 for the "Files to download" block.

Image gallery and folder will be different because smarts are needed to display the files and then reorder them in the interface. Though these two blocks assume that you just add files to the folders and they are pulled into the gallery / the folder automatically without you having to do anything.

Cheers

Kristina

17 May 2013, 0:19

Hi Kristina:

I've filed https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1180775

and voted for/commented on https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/732462

In my comment on 732462, I've suggested re-ordering by dragging - though I'm not sure if there is an FOSS tool for that.

19 May 2013, 20:58

Thanks for filing the bug, Don, and for commenting on the wishlist item. We'll keep your suggestion in mind when we can work on this.

I also created https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1181696 because renaming images doesn't result in their re-ordering in the image gallery.

Cheers

Kristina