[SOLVED] Module Universal - How to use the order of specified items (Item SCOPE)

Hello,
i use universal module to display 3 articles. This 3 articles are selected by id in the article selection tab.
How to desable all article order to get the order of my selection?

id1,id2,id3 if i have set id1,id2,id3 in the article selection tab

id2,id1,id3 if i have set id2,id1,id3 in the article selection tab
...

Regards

Hello

good question, currently there is no option for this

but this valid / useful usage question !

- indeed if someone decides to display ONLY specific items,
then usually he would want to also set a manual order

I understand that these items maybe from different categories and also even if they are from same category, we may not want to tamper with the "ordering" inside the category

- i wonder if we always use the selected order, or if we need a parameter for this

Still i am not sure if this is easy to do in combination, with other SCOPEs , e.g. you may combine the item scope with the DATE scope, etc


I think since we always retrieve ids and then data,

It is enough to
1. Strip the ID not matchings from the given IDs of item scope
2. Then use:
' ORDER BY FIELD(i.id, '. implode(',', $ordered_found_ids) .')';

Hello,
thanks
Is there a way to modify anything in the php file of module template (an overide of news.php)?

Maybe in the $list[$ord]?

Regards

Hello

actually i am thinking to add this

(by adding a parameter to respect the order of selected items)

i have already made the change locally for:
- "items scope" in "INCLUDE" (specific items) mode

will take time later to test it

Hello

as i said, i think we can make this the default behaviour
(even if we add new parameter the default would be to respect the order)

Replace with:

Hello

i commited new parameter, but made default to be OFF:
github.com/FLEXIcontent/flexicontent-cck...5d0963bfa1e9442dbb5b

So remember to enable when you upgrade to future version