Sort order for products

[jmestep]

No, what he is saying is that the grids will work if you use a display page that shows only the products in that particular category. The page you are using shows products in a category and it's subcategories. Since each subcategory has it's own sorting rules they wouldn't apply to the display page you are using.

[ryanstowasser]

This link is an example of how you can write a custom sorting method

viewtopic.php?f=44&t=5736&p=23258&hilit ... ort#p23258

If you need to sort based on the catalog node categoryid then the orderby value you can define that in the Compare function.

[NC Software]

Well currently the AbleCommerce 7 doesn't list the products as per admin adjusted order. It was a bug which is fixed for 7.2 version.
http://bugs.ablecommerce.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7453
If you use the following workaround

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<asp:ListItem Text="< Select Sort Order >" Value="" Selected="True"></asp:ListItem>

Then it will take care of the order in which products was actually added to catalog.

I'm using 7.0.3 and this is not the case (wasn't fixed it seems), had to handle this manually per the many posts here.

[mazhar]

Try this trick on those pages showing a single category items for example CategoryList and CategoryDetails pages. We can't maintain merchant order for those pages that display data from multiple categories.

[NC Software]

Simple pages such as CategoryGrid didn't have this fix (the Default no Value sort value) and in my opinion should.

[Logan Rhodehamel]

One of the reasons why we bought this software was to be able to sort products easily.

We use a grid, not list, format and basically what you are saying is that it cant work with a grid format?!!

Yes, you can. We offer two different category grid display pages. One of them is a "deep" item display where the category displays all products in the category and all subcategories. This type of display is our default and with it, categories work like a kind of filter. You start out seeing all the products then you can click into categories to narrow in.

We also offer a category display page that uses a grid format but only shows items from the category. This is the display page you want. You can change from the merchant admin area, under the website menu.

The code block that is passing around here, you can actually make it work most reliably by doing this:

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<asp:ListItem Text="< Select Sort Order >" Value="OrderBy ASC" Selected="True"></asp:ListItem>

I think that will work on any of the display pages. The column name "OrderBy" is the sort that is adjusted by the admin.

[Logan Rhodehamel]

I'm using 7.0.3 and this is not the case (wasn't fixed it seems), had to handle this manually per the many posts here.

I am not sure what bug was fixed. The issue of ordering as addressed here is (finally) registered into our bug database and has been corrected. The fix is essentially to add the code I listed above to the sorting box. It will be an official part of our next release.