Feature Language Change PBF PR-6.1-dev Pending

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avatar Dileepadari
Dileepadari
24 Mar 2025

Pull Request for Issue #37841 .

Summary of Changes

  • Aligned filter options in the article modal for both frontend and backend.
  • Aligned the sorting filter by arranging options in same order for both frontend and backend.

Testing Instructions

  1. Navigate to: your.domain/index.php?option=com_content&view=form&layout=edit
  2. Select Article as the Menu Item Type (default is CMS content).
  3. A modal window with articles will open.
  4. New filters Featured and Stage (visible only when workflows are enabled for articles) are now available.
  5. Apply different filters and verify that the content updates accordingly.

Actual result BEFORE applying this Pull Request

  • Filter options were inconsistent between the backend and frontend.
    before_1

  • Sorting options in frontend were ordered differently from backend.
    before_2

Expected result AFTER applying this Pull Request

  • Filter options are now consistent between the backend and frontend.
    after_1

  • Sorting options are consistent over both frontend and backend.
    after_2

Link to documentations

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  • Documentation link for docs.joomla.org:

  • No documentation changes for docs.joomla.org needed

  • Pull Request link for manual.joomla.org:

  • No documentation changes for manual.joomla.org needed

avatar Dileepadari Dileepadari - open - 24 Mar 2025
avatar Dileepadari Dileepadari - change - 24 Mar 2025
Status New Pending
avatar joomla-cms-bot joomla-cms-bot - change - 24 Mar 2025
Category Administration com_content Front End Language & Strings
avatar Dileepadari
Dileepadari - comment - 24 Mar 2025

This is continuous pr for 45106 to solve the issue #37841 .

avatar Dileepadari Dileepadari - change - 24 Mar 2025
Title
[5.2] Changed the ordering of the filters and added missed filter options in frontend
[5.2] Changed the ordering of the Sorting and added missed filter options in frontend
avatar Dileepadari Dileepadari - edited - 24 Mar 2025
avatar Dileepadari Dileepadari - change - 24 Mar 2025
Labels Added: Language Change PR-5.2-dev
avatar fgsw fgsw - test_item - 24 Mar 2025 - Tested successfully
avatar fgsw
fgsw - comment - 24 Mar 2025

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on 2177a03

Without PR

Backend Frontend
backend-article-modal frontend-article-modal

With PR

Backend Frontend
backend-article-modal-2 frontend-article-modal-2

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avatar brianteeman
brianteeman - comment - 24 Mar 2025

Sorting in alphabetical order is completely pointless as it only works if the language is english. As soon as you switch to use another language the order is completely meaningless. That is why the order currently matches the column order. It wasnt just a random act.

avatar brianteeman brianteeman - test_item - 24 Mar 2025 - Tested unsuccessfully
avatar brianteeman
brianteeman - comment - 24 Mar 2025

I have tested this item 🔴 unsuccessfully on 2177a03


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avatar Rohit-rk07
Rohit-rk07 - comment - 24 Mar 2025

@fgsw @brianteeman Could anyone please clarify the stage filter issue .why it isnt visible in backend

avatar brianteeman
brianteeman - comment - 24 Mar 2025

it is only visible when you have enabled workflows

avatar joomla-cms-bot joomla-cms-bot - change - 24 Mar 2025
Category Administration com_content Front End Language & Strings Front End com_content Language & Strings
avatar Dileepadari
Dileepadari - comment - 24 Mar 2025

@brianteeman Thanks for providing info about the sorting order, I have reverted back to previous order but changed some order to align frontend with backend. Could you please let me know if there is a reason to not having sort by rating and published in frontend whereas it is present in backend. Thank you

avatar brianteeman
brianteeman - comment - 24 Mar 2025

If the item you are sorting by is not displayed is there any point in that sort order as you can't see the results

avatar Dileepadari
Dileepadari - comment - 24 Mar 2025

But the item like Date modified will be useful when they want to access recently modified items. I added it in the frontend, Should I remove that too?

avatar HLeithner
HLeithner - comment - 15 Apr 2025

This pull request has been automatically rebased to 6.0-dev.

avatar richard67 richard67 - change - 20 Apr 2025
Title
[5.2] Changed the ordering of the Sorting and added missed filter options in frontend
[6.0] Changed the ordering of the Sorting and added missed filter options in frontend
avatar richard67 richard67 - edited - 20 Apr 2025
avatar HLeithner
HLeithner - comment - 31 Aug 2025

This pull request has been automatically rebased to 6.1-dev.

avatar HLeithner HLeithner - change - 31 Aug 2025
Title
[6.0] Changed the ordering of the Sorting and added missed filter options in frontend
[6.1] Changed the ordering of the Sorting and added missed filter options in frontend
avatar HLeithner HLeithner - edited - 31 Aug 2025
avatar tecpromotion tecpromotion - change - 29 Jan 2026
Labels Added: Feature PR-6.1-dev
Removed: PR-5.2-dev
avatar tecpromotion tecpromotion - alter_testresult - 29 Jan 2026 - brianteeman: Tested unsuccessfully
avatar drankwiler
drankwiler - comment - 30 Jan 2026

Filter options are consistent, alphabetical order is reversed.


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avatar Dileepadari Dileepadari - change - 31 Jan 2026
The description was changed
avatar Dileepadari Dileepadari - edited - 31 Jan 2026
avatar Dileepadari
Dileepadari - comment - 31 Jan 2026

Filter options are consistent, alphabetical order is reversed.
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Hi @drankwiler , Thanks for testing the pr, could you please let me know which alphabetical order you are talking about, is it for Filter or Sorting? Thank you

avatar Dileepadari Dileepadari - change - 31 Jan 2026
Labels Added: PBF
avatar idefax idefax - test_item - 31 Jan 2026 - Tested unsuccessfully
avatar idefax
idefax - comment - 31 Jan 2026

I have tested this item 🔴 unsuccessfully on 9f0ef57

Filter options are now consistent, but sorting order is reversed (Z to A).


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avatar Dileepadari
Dileepadari - comment - 31 Jan 2026

I have tested this item 🔴 unsuccessfully on 9f0ef57Filter options are now consistent, but sorting order is reversed (Z to A).
This comment was created with the J!Tracker Application at issues.joomla.org/tracker/joomla-cms/45206.

Hi @idefax , Thanks for testing the pull request, could you please let me know which alphabetical order you are talking about, is it for Filter or Sorting? Thank you

avatar idefax
idefax - comment - 31 Jan 2026

Hi @Dileepadari

I'm talking about the content of the drop down menus. I understood the case the way, that there entries are supposed to be sorted A to Z. Or did I missunderstand this?

sorting-in-dropdown
avatar drankwiler
drankwiler - comment - 31 Jan 2026

Hi @Dileepadari, I'm talking about the order inside the filters. For example, in the "Select featured" dropdown, "Unfeatured" comes before "Featured".
image

avatar Dileepadari
Dileepadari - comment - 31 Jan 2026

Hi @Dileepadari, I'm talking about the order inside the filters. For example, in the "Select featured" dropdown, "Unfeatured" comes before "Featured".
image

But it was same in the backend too. Should I change in both places. What would you suggest?

avatar drankwiler
drankwiler - comment - 31 Jan 2026

@Dileepadari Hm… i would say, it would be more intuitive to have the order A-Z instead of Z–A. What do you and @idefax think?

avatar Dileepadari
Dileepadari - comment - 31 Jan 2026

@Dileepadari Hm… i would say, it would be more intuitive to have the order A-Z instead of Z–A. What do you and @idefax think?

Yeah I thought that first, but brianteeman raised a valid point that the whole point of sorting makes no sense when the language got changed. So we can leave it as it is.

avatar idefax
idefax - comment - 31 Jan 2026

@drankwiler @Dileepadari yeah, I prefer A to Z as well. But I don't quite understand the point of sorting regarding other languages. A to Z works in all latin languages. Or am I missing something here?

avatar drankwiler
drankwiler - comment - 31 Jan 2026

Yeah I thought that first, but brianteeman raised a valid point that the whole point of sorting makes no sense when the language got changed. So we can leave it as it is.

Okay, then should we mark this patch as tested successfully?

avatar Dileepadari
Dileepadari - comment - 31 Jan 2026

Yeah I thought that first, but brianteeman raised a valid point that the whole point of sorting makes no sense when the language got changed. So we can leave it as it is.

Okay, then should we mark this patch as tested successfully?

Sorry, Previously it was mentioned for the sort by as they are aligning to the columns in the table. Now In this case, as they are not in any type of order, we can go with alphabetical, I'll make them alphabetical in both frontend and backend. Would that be fine? @drankwiler @idefax

avatar brianteeman
brianteeman - comment - 31 Jan 2026

Please do not change this. There is a logic to the ordering PLUS changing it to alphabetical will only change it in English and not any of the 60+ languages that joomla is available in.

avatar drankwiler
drankwiler - comment - 31 Jan 2026

@brianteeman @Dileepadari So we mark this patch as tested sucessfully, right?

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