By Beth K on

I have no idea what version of Drupal I have and I am new to this.
I have a catalog page with items for sale. They are displayed in rows and each row has 3 items across.
I would like to sort the order of these items. The list position doesn't seem to work. I think I have most of them set
at position 0 and it says if they have the same position they will be sorted alphabetically but mine just appear in the order they were uploaded.
Thanks for the help.

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spovlot commented

You probably want to use the Views module (http://drupal.org/project/views) to do this. You might already have this module installed. Do you have a store setup like Ubercart or Commerce?

You probably have Drupal 6.x or 7.x since 8.x is not released.

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Beth K commented

Yes, I have ubercart. How can I tell if I have that module?
Thanks

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spovlot commented

Ubercart on Drupal 7.x requires the Views module.

You can find the modules installed and their versions under admin/modules
You can find the version of Drupal under admin/reports/status

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KD@SVM_NC commented

I'm having the same problem. I'll set a certain item to be in position 1, but it shows up in the middle of the product listings. The first item that shows up is set to position 6. I do have the views module installed. The product listings page updates automatically, so it's not a cache problem. After I set list positions for all the items, they did change positions. They are sort of in order. What is the reason for being able to set a position with a negative number? Do these come first or last?

I'm a Drupal newbie, don't assume I know anything.

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XandieL commented

why dont you use draggableviews for sorting

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KD@SVM_NC commented

There you go, assuming I know what you're talking about! (I have no idea.)

After some poking around in Drupal and reading some related posts, I figured out that the list position filter in the ViewsUI module/product page hasn't been added as a sort criteria. Instead of adding it without authorization, we started setting the 'weight' in the weight tab when editing a product page. This works fine, it seems. (Until something blows up?)

I've had almost ZERO training in Drupal, and three weeks experience working on websites. I simply bought a Drupal book and started poking around gingerly. Did I mention that I'm one third of our website development team, and that one guy is soon leaving? Nothing like a challenge to get the juices flowing. Oh, by the way, our new site launches on Memorial Day. 2015. Yeah, life's like that sometimes.

Thanks for responding.