MG 2.1 Finder Mediaitem.php

[Twincam]

Hi All

I have changed orderByDate in Finder Mediaitem.php as follows because this is the only sequence we want. All looked fine. I have now spotted an issue with the thumbnail slider that comes up when you are looking at an image within a category. It looks like that isn't following the same sequence? Is there another place where the sequence of Media Items is set?

Thanks

public function orderByDate($order = 'rating_sum', $direction = 'DESC')
{
$this->setDefaultOrder([
['rating_sum', 'DESC'],
['title', 'ASC'],
['media_date', 'DESC']
]);

return $this;
}

 

[Twincam]

Anyone got any ideas on this? This is our last issue and I just can't figure out how to fix it!

 

[Jeremy P]

The order can be set from anywhere that creates a finder object using order(), whereas orderByDate() simply sets up a default order if no other order is specified. However, patching order() is a fairly obtuse solution and would probably cause unexpected behavior and problems. You'd probably want to patch the places which consume the finder and set the order you want there instead.

 

[Twincam]

Thanks. Patching order() might be a good "short term" solution to get us live. Where is it defined?