Tree Hierarchy Sorting

[fusionine]

Following on from the Post that SlavaRom raised.

I agree, the ability to sort pages on the tree hierarchy is very important.

As a Technical Writer, I have been assessing various help authoring solutions plus Wiki's, but I believe KnowledgeRoot is one of the nicest pieces of software I have seen in a long time. So well done Frank (and team).

I am about to embark on a move away from CHM developed technical documentation, into a live/web environment. I'd like to use KR but at this stage the tree hierarchy sorting is a showstopper for me.

I too would look forward to solution on page sorting. Having everything displayed in alphabetical order just doesn't do it I'm afraid.

Regards

George

[admin]

Hi,

i agree also with you that sorting is an very important feature.

I have started the implementation for that problem in the last days. With that you can set a priority value for each page.
So if you enable the order on this priorities it works as you want.
Unlovely is that it is not possible todo this order by drag and drop in the tree itself - so a little bit complicated but possible.

For a knowledgeroot 1.1 it could be possible that i change the tree to use the tree from dojo framework and to implement this drag and drop feature for ordering.

Frank

[fusionine]

Hi Frank,

I was talking with a Danish Developer a few months ago, about this very situation, albeit a different CMS.
He ended up using a numerical indexing system. It was similar to using a Table Of Contents (TOC) structure, drilling down to at least 3 or 4 layers deep.

Section 1 (index 1)
 - Sub section 1 (index 1.1)
 - Sub section 2 (index 1.2)
 - Sub section 2, sub sub section 1 (1.2.1)
 
I guess it would be similar to what you see in a Word document using the H1 through to H7 header styles.

In KR's case, I guess we are looking at the Pages only - being used in a similar way.

Good luck.

George

[admin]

Hi,

as i discribed. You can set a priority for each page that will be used for ordering. So you are able sort all as you want.
Is that solution ok for you?

Frank

[fusionine]

I believe so, yes.

[admin]

I have added thet stuff to trunk.

regards,
Frank