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avatar pe7er
pe7er
17 Aug 2015

This PR is similar to PR #7712

The Categories list view has two ordering options:
1. You can order the list of Article or Featured Article items on any column by clicking on the column heading (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 visible there. The list is already ordered by default and the default ordering option is: "Ordering ascending".

IMHO option 2 Sort Table By: dropdown option is not very user friendly for new users. The "Ordering ascending" option is confusing. And for experienced users it's another 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 > Categories

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.

categories-remove-duplicate-ordering

After the PR

Content > Categories

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.

categories-remove-duplicate-ordering-after

Note that com_categories is used by other components!

Banners, Contacts, Newsfeeds (and the removed component Weblinks) all use com_categories to manage the categories for their items. After installing this PR the duplicate option should be removed for those components as well.
For example the Category view of the Banners Component:

Components > Banners > Categories

Before PR

categories-banners-remove-duplicate-ordering

After PR

categories-banners-remove-duplicate-ordering-after

Votes

# of Users Experiencing Issue
1/1
Average Importance Score
1.00

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
Easy No Yes
avatar zero-24 zero-24 - change - 17 Aug 2015
Category Administration UI/UX
avatar MAT978
MAT978 - comment - 17 Aug 2015

Works as described for Content - banners - contacts - News Feeds
Thanks Peter


This comment was created with the J!Tracker Application at issues.joomla.org/joomla-cms/7713.

avatar MAT978 MAT978 - test_item - 17 Aug 2015 - Tested successfully
avatar rdeutz
rdeutz - comment - 18 Aug 2015

same comment as #7719

avatar watchfulli-dev
watchfulli-dev - comment - 20 Aug 2015

@test success, after applying the patch the ordering option on top right side are removed, and you can order the items by clicking on their columns headers ( on com_content, com_banners, com_newsfeeds, com_contacts)


This comment was created with the J!Tracker Application at issues.joomla.org/joomla-cms/7713.

avatar watchfulli-dev watchfulli-dev - test_item - 20 Aug 2015 - Tested successfully
avatar kesh52 kesh52 - test_item - 20 Aug 2015 - Tested successfully
avatar hitchblade hitchblade - test_item - 20 Aug 2015 - Tested successfully
avatar PeterJTHM PeterJTHM - test_item - 21 Aug 2015 - Tested successfully
avatar zero-24
zero-24 - comment - 2 Sep 2015

Closing as per comment by @rdeutz here: #7719 (comment)

avatar zero-24 zero-24 - change - 2 Sep 2015
Status Pending Closed
Closed_Date 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2015-09-02 09:13:38
Closed_By zero-24
avatar zero-24 zero-24 - close - 2 Sep 2015
avatar zero-24 zero-24 - close - 2 Sep 2015
avatar pe7er pe7er - head_ref_deleted - 5 Nov 2015

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