Forum OpenACS Q&A: Changing the sort order of a keys in a tree using tree sortkey

Posted by hafeez bana on 01/12/05 06:03 AM

Hello All,

I am building a sitemap utility that allows one to create a tree of nodes. The underlying implementation uses the tree sortkey functionality.

I am unable to find any easy way of changing the sort order of particular tree items other then deleting and recreating the items.

example:
Root
Node 1
Node 2
Sub Node 1
Sub Node 2
Sub Node3
Node 3

needs to be changed to

Root
Node 2
Sub Node 2
Sub Node 1
Sub Node3
Node 3
Node 1

Any ideas?

Regards,
Hafeez

Posted by Ben Koot on 01/12/05 04:09 PM

Hafeez.

Did you install the "categories" module on your system? It does what you are looking I think

Cheers
Ben

Posted by Don Baccus on 01/12/05 06:02 PM

categories use a different technique to store tree relationships.

Posted by Jade Rubick on 01/14/05 06:45 PM

There was a posting on how to do this a while ago. It's messy, but I think you have to do it in Tcl. The posting was very helpful, however.

Posted by Jun Yamog on 01/22/05 07:13 PM

Hi Hafeez,

Its is possible to do this, but I discourage you do to this unless there is no other way. You can use etp as a sample.

Here are some of the older code I got. It maybe possible that they are too old, that its pre bit varying days.

Good luck.