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avatar pe7er
pe7er
17 Aug 2015

The Articles and Featured Articles list view both have two ordering options:
1. You can order the list of Article or Featured Article items on any column by clicking on the column heading (Ordering, Status, Title, Access, Author, Language, Date, Hits, ID). You can reverse the order direction by clicking a second time on the same column heading.
2. Another way to order the list is to click the Sort Table By: dropdown option. However that name is never listed there. The list is already ordered by default and the default ordering option is: "ID descending".

IMHO option 2 Sort Table By: dropdown option is not very user friendly for new users: they don't understand what the "ID descending" button means. And for experienced users it's another extra button / option to focus on. And because all ordering options are already available via column headers (option 1), I decided to create this PR to remove the duplicate ordering dropdown option

Testing instructions

Before the PR

Content > Articles

The list of Articles can be ordered by clicking on column headers,
and by clicking on the "Sort Table By" dropdown option on the top right.

articles-remove-duplicate-ordering

Content > Articles > Featured Articles

The list of Featured Articles can be ordered by clicking on column headers,
and by clicking on the "Sort Table By" dropdown option on the top right.

featuredarticles-remove-duplicate-ordering

After the PR

Content > Articles

The list of Articles can be ordered by clicking on column headers. The duplicate "Sort Table By" dropdown has been removed and the user has one option less too focus on.

articles-remove-duplicate-ordering-after

Content > Articles > Featured Articles

The list of Featured Articles can be ordered by clicking on column headers. The duplicate "Sort Table By" dropdown has been removed and the user has one option less too focus on.

featuredarticles-remove-duplicate-ordering-after

avatar pe7er pe7er - open - 17 Aug 2015
avatar pe7er pe7er - change - 17 Aug 2015
Status New Pending
avatar joomla-cms-bot joomla-cms-bot - change - 17 Aug 2015
Labels Added: ?
avatar zero-24 zero-24 - change - 17 Aug 2015
Category Administration UI/UX
avatar zero-24 zero-24 - change - 17 Aug 2015
Easy No Yes
avatar rdeutz
rdeutz - comment - 18 Aug 2015

same comment as #7719

avatar Bakual
Bakual - comment - 18 Aug 2015

In Articles view, you can no longer order by "category" or "featured" due to the missing box. Because there is no dedicated table heading for those options.

avatar Bakual
Bakual - comment - 18 Aug 2015

In featured view, the "category" order will be missing.

avatar pe7er
pe7er - comment - 18 Aug 2015

Good point @Bakual!
Because of the layout the category is placed under the Article Title,
hence it does not have an column heading & ordering option.
I had not seen that.

Please close this PR...

avatar zero-24
zero-24 - comment - 18 Aug 2015

@pe7er

Please close this PR...

You can just hit the Close button if you want to close a PR / Issue :smile:

avatar zero-24 zero-24 - change - 18 Aug 2015
Status Pending Closed
Closed_Date 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2015-08-18 12:48:31
Closed_By zero-24
avatar zero-24 zero-24 - close - 18 Aug 2015
avatar zero-24 zero-24 - close - 18 Aug 2015
avatar pe7er
pe7er - comment - 18 Aug 2015

ah, missed that button. Thanks @zero-24

avatar zero-24
zero-24 - comment - 18 Aug 2015

No problem you are welcome :smile:

avatar pe7er pe7er - head_ref_deleted - 5 Nov 2015

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