META: Plan for Draggable Views 7.x-2.1 release

I have compile a roadmap to the next release, and the notable major & minor changes since 7.x-2.0

Draggableviews

EDITWe need a new release. Not everything got into 7.x-2.1. Everything on the TODO got push to #2445089: Plan for Draggable Views 7.x-2.2 release

TODO

• #1916380: Roadmap to add taxonomy support to module handle taxonomy with hierarchy support
• #1551230: Add pager support for DraggableViews tables Pager support
• #1906454: Change Native Handler organization to how Taxonomy does it Native handler weight/parent ordering like Taxonomy ordering
• #1879408: Support Field API handler for hierarchy FieldAPI hierarchy handler
• #1902536: How things work when you have one or more exposed filter Fix how exposed filters work - ref #1724126: Prevent saving of unused exposed filters
• #1904182: Save to Field Collection item ID Support for Field Collections
• #1877662: Allow for different sort per user Add User argument/contextual filter
• #1899038: Need to add support for multiple draggable sort in one view display
• #######: Add Group By and Entity Reference example module
  • (Depended on #1899038)
  • This will clear up and provide examples for
    • #1514116: Group by support, multiple native sorts per display
    • #1777646: How to work with Entity References
    • #1867908: Field API: Support Entity Reference

Major Changes Committed

• #1714736: Expose the parent column to views Create 'parent' field for views
• #1719198: Create 'weight' field for views Create 'weight' field for views
• #1660508: 'New items appear bottom of the list' option fails in PostgreSQL because of COALESCE function New items appear bottom of list break in PostgreSQL
• #1900068: Replace 'self' reference with '$view->name:$view->current_display' Better Support for Multiple Sort Order Displays in one view (by removing reference to 'self' in code)
• #1787764: Unknown column caused by orderby alias not matching field alias Fix Table Alias - Unknown column Error cause by orderby alias
• #1780498: Row weights values are all the same. Fix Row weights values are all the same
• #1730474: Upgrade Path 1.x to 2.x (for data) Upgrade Path from 7.x-1.x to 7.x-2.x for Data
• #1432456: Improve performance when {draggableviews_structure} has a large number of rows by adding database indexes Add Indexes to database
• #1957656: Multiple draggableviews list on same page not working Fix multiple list form on a single page
• #2413433: update 'self' sort handler setting in db Add update hook
• #1989128: Ajax auto submit not working when multiple forms Fix multiple form on a single page (ajax or not)
• Remove Save button in multiple instances

Minor Changes Committed

• #853286: Filter by draggableviews weight & parent Filter by Native handler weight and parent
• #1878164: Prepare arguments with PHP code has no explanation Better Prepare arguments with PHP Documentation
• #1901170: Never save items_per_page argument Never save items_per_page argument
• #1239038: Add hierarchy level to row classes in a view tables output Add hierarchy level row class to table view
• #1900562: Use the biggest integer 2147483647 instead of 10000 Change new unset items to the large integer number
• #1912242: Draggableviews field does not save hierarchy_handler default value to options definitions Draggables does not save hierarchy_handler
• #2005000: 'Show Weights' are broken with long field names Using FieldAPI the 'show weight' value were all the same

Note: This roadmap is not fixed, it might change

Additional Information

I went ahead with a major rewrite, and this is the workflow I came up with that solves majority of the major/minor problems #1973850: Purposed Draggableviews Workflow