Similar feature request to one from the Block Reference module: #659584: Select widget fix for re-ordering blocks

I need to be able to sort the selected values from a select list (in my case it was for a Node Reference). With the "multiple values" select list, you have to hold ctrl or shift to select multiple values, and you CANNOT re-order them.

So I borrowed some code from the autocomplete widget to create a drag and drop sortable widget for select lists. It doesn't replace the Select list widget, it simply adds an additional widget to the drop-down.

Is there already a module which provides this? I searched and didn't find one. Regardless, it seems like a good idea to add this to CCK or Core in D7.

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#6 789542-select-list-drag-n-drop-sorting-cck3-6.patch5.22 KBrupl
#1 select-list-drag-n-drop-sorting-cck3.patch3.95 KBpifantastic
select-list-drag-n-drop-sorting.patch4 KBpuddyglum
select-list-drag-n-drop-sorting.png6.65 KBpuddyglum
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select-list-drag-n-drop-sorting-cck3.patch3.95 KB

Tested this patch with cck3 and it works well! One of the patch chunks fails so I updated the patch for cck3.

Thanks @jmonkfish this is exactly what we were looking for.

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This is awesome. I have been looking for something like this for a while.

It would be great to have this in the core cck for all select lists options.

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Thanks for the patch, very useful.

There seems to be an issue with HTML entities though. Specifically, it is replacing ampersands with & when it shouldn't be, like in the middle of an entity reference.

For instance, it is transforming ' (which should render as an apostrophe) into ' (which renders as ').

So "Bob's Foobar" renders as "Bob's Foobar".

I solved this by changing theme_nodereference_select_sortable() to:

function theme_nodereference_select_sortable($element) {
  return str_replace( '&#', '&#', $element['#children'] );
}

Seems like a workaround though, ideally would be better to track down where the original replacement is occurring and prevent it.

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Just out of curiosity, has anyone used this patch on a CCK field inside a multigroup? At first glance it does not appear to work. I haven't had a chance to dive into the code and look for a fix.

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subscribing! it's unfortunate that multiple node references don't allow ordering the way that most multiple fields do.

are the maintainers interested in providing this feature? i assume we'd need a patch for 7 and 6.x-3.x before it can be committed to 6.x-2.x?

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789542-select-list-drag-n-drop-sorting-cck3-6.patch5.22 KB

Re-rolling the patch from pifantastic in #1 against current 6.x-3.x-dev

One small change, because the auto-complete results contained some HTML. I added an optional flag to nodereference_allowed_values() to allow output of 'title' instead of hardcoded 'rendered' option, which is now default.

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Version: 6.x-2.6 » 6.x-3.x-dev

Forgot to update version!

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After click "Add another item" all values in select lists appears empty.

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Any idea about a Drupal 7 Port?!