Can't test so won't test

@brianteeman You CAN test it. You can use the FOF 2.x demo component (todo) from https://github.com/akeeba/todo-fof-example/tree/master create a bunch of todo items and try reordering them.

However, I expected you to set it to RTC and commit it without any further ado like you did with the TWO commits that completely screwed up drag and drop reordering. You know, the ones I wasted two hours of my time to track down and fix in this PR because you guys don't care when you're breaking backwards compatibility and only play it hard when someone WHO ACTUALLY KNOWS HOW THIS THING WORKS spends his time fixing what you broke!

Forget it. I'll just remove the feature you stupidly broke from FOF 3 and let you figure out what to do with the end of life FOF 2 you still have in the core. I won't try to fix core bugs again. It's clear now that you will only blindly accept code from idiots who don't know how Joomla! works and break it instead of the people who DO know how it works and try to fix it. My bad. I should have learned by now.

What's going on here, I am just looking how I can test it.

@nikosdion I didn't test, merge or mark rtc either of the two pr you refer to.

I had noticed it did not work with order input fields visible,
and the selector seem strange,

• but did not look at it any more at that particular time

Tested this fix and it works:

To test with Joomla backend featured manager

1. isis template add file css/custom.css with:

.text-area-order, .sortable-handler + input {
  display: inline !important;
  width: 40px; text-align: right;
}

1. In feature manager make hard refresh to get new JS loaded and sort by the ordering the column
2. E.g. i have 10 records, manually (typing) reverse the last 4 items e.g. 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 to 10 - 9 - 8 - 7
3. Drag and drop some of the records at the top, this will trigger an AJAX save too, like you clicked a save button, thus your manual ordering will get saved too
4. DO a CTRL-F5 or similar refresh

You see that the drag and drop ordering worked, and that the records that you manually ordered were saved

To add save button to the header of the column
After:

<?php echo JHtml::_('searchtools.sort', '', 'fp.ordering', $listDirn ...

Add:

<?php echo JHTML::_('grid.order', $this->items, 'filesave.png', 'featured.saveorder' ); ?>

Change some input manually to different order, and click on different field to blur the input,
you will see that the manually save button gets activated,
click it to save

Thank you for providing a way for this to be tested

Sorry, i missed a step above:
4. After you drag and drop DO a CTRL-F5 or similar, to reload the view and force correct display of the saved fields

Maybe adding the manual save button is easier for testing (see above)

In fact #7368 broke it, they are two ways of fixing it. At the moment I am checking what is the best way to fix it and to have the ability to have text fields in sortable tables. PR is on the way

To see what is not working I used the URL-Redirection from admin-tools-pro, before the patch it doesn't work after it works. Didn't test a FOF3 component