I have a lot of Groups in the CMS, most of them are within a parent Group, but I noticed that they are sorted by ID and not sorted alphabetically or by the sort field. How do I correct this?
It might be enough to add a default_sort
setting to your Group
model. For example:
$default_sort = '"Sort" ASC';
or
$default_sort = '"Title" ASC';
You can also chain sort fields to use in case of duplicate values
$default_sort = '"Title" ASC, "LastEdited" DESC';
If you’re talking about the SilverStripe\Security\Group
model you can’t directly edit the static vars but you can set the sort through yaml config:
# SilverStripe 4.x
SilverStripe\Security\Group
default_sort: '"Title" ASC'
# SilverStripe 3.x
Group
default_sort: '"Title" ASC'
Thank you! Yes I am talking about the SilverStripe\Security\Group. I tried this but did not get it to work. Where exactly do I put the yaml config code?
Thanks so much for your help.
Sorry I didn’t notice this was a SilverStripe 3.x question. Try removing the namespace prefix (SilverStripe\Security\
) from the example and place it in one of your projects’ config files, e.g. mysite/_config/config.yml then do a flush.
That worked, thank you so much!
Glad it helped you! I edited my original reply to include SS3 example and marked it as the solution for future readers.