Ordering Content Type entries in the List view
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It would be really beneficial if there was a way to retain the order (using order column for example) of a collection and be able to update it via drag-and-drop on the collection view.
There are many cases when we want to have a certain order of items (regardless of insert order/id/filter/sort options provided in the view), and to be able to retrieve the data using the predefined order later (as seen in the collection view for example)
Using drag and drop would help as it's really tedious to go to a huge collection and pump the order column of each item (for a CMS user) or run a query on the database (for CMS power user)
most common use case, ordering an employee list on a company website (or add a new employee at a specific position)
Emilie Ringwald
updated the status to
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🎉 It's out (in experimental mode)! After 284 votes and a long wait, you can now order the entries of a collection type by hand in Strapi 5.61: drag rows in the list view, type a position, or use Move to top / bottom, and the API returns that order when no sort is passed.
It's still behind a future flag (unstableCustomOrder in config/features), then turn on "custom order" in Configure the view. All the details are in the release notes.
Huge thanks to everyone who voted, and to Maxime Castres for building it 💙 Please try it and tell us in the comments what works and what doesn't, it will shape the stable version.
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Mickaël TRICOT
When upgrading from Strapi 4 to Strapi 5, we had to switch to a different sorting plugin. It would therefore be useful if this feature were built in rather than relying on a third party. That said, this plugin (compatible with Strapi 5) works quite well for now: https://market.strapi.io/plugins/strapi-plugin-sortable-entries
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Jake NA
Bump +1
@nvd
This is real user need, please, large project may not need, but small project with small client really need this feature.
Martin Serdült
I thought this was a basic feature 😅
Omar Elbaga
I'm back here 3 years later, I cannot believe this is not out of the box. It makes Strapi unusable with our clients because they have to be able to re-order list items. Darn it.
David Thomason
I tried this plugin:
and it works pretty well
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@aajuu19
Almost 5 years later and there is still no feature for this..
In general i like Strapi, but this is a no go.
My customer is requesting this feature, how do i tell him that this is not possible? Now i need to justify my choice of tech..
Please Strapi team, fix this.
Why are there features and solves on the roadmap which barely have 50 votes and this highly requested feature is not even on the roadmap?
Dimitris Kottas
We have found a way to solve it per view. For example, if you have a list of projects with a "Project" content type on a protfolio page you can create a single type "Projects" and there add a relation field with with Project. there you can determine the order. in some cases it makes sense but in others it just adds extra content types and relations to the database.
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