Change sorting of Episodes

[klodeckl]

It would be better, if the output of the episodes in the XML feed will be descending (static or TS option) so the latest episode will be output first (like on a newssystem tt_news, the latest news at first) and not at last.

Should not be so difficult:
http://t3n.de/magazin/zehn-tipps-tricks-extbase-fluid-227639/2/
http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v4-mvc/wiki/Default_Orderings_and_Query_Settings_in_Repository
But in my case it didn’t work, I’m not so familiar with extbase and fluid…

[noelboss]

The sorting is based on the order of the episodes that you add in your podcast – I could automate this order of course ... maybe it makes sense to order it by date... you'd loose the ability so sort it directly....

[klodeckl]

That makes sense, I didn’t realize that. But how about a way to change the sorting ascending and descending (e.g. typoscript option)? So that the last one added is always the first one in the feed?

[noelboss]

I have updated the TCA for the filed so that it's not possible to move the episodes anymore... You can use the development branche. There is also a fix for keywords and typenums...

[klodeckl]

Thanks! I will test it next week.

[klodeckl]

Not moving episodes in the backend works fine, but the sorting is still wrong. Should be latest (newest) one at first and last one (oldest) at last.

[noelboss]

That should be the case... Please use 0.3.8 since the other releases had some pretty nasty bugs :D

Have you modified the templates? Still you could do thins:
<f:for each="{podcast.episodes}" as="episode" reverse="false">

reverse="true"

[klodeckl]

I just updated to 0.3.8. But the same problem, episodes are in the wrong order (oldest is at first and not at last).

[newsdesigner]

I don't understand the excitement about the sequence of episodes in the RSS feed. No user reads the RSS file. Clients sort the feed so that the latest episodes at the top.

[klodeckl]

That’s right, but I would prefer a feed with common normal output like it should be in a podcast feed and not to rely on the ability, the podcast client (like iTunes) checks this out.

[klodeckl]

How about this now? I think it is good to have it in a real order. At the moment I can not check it out because I don’t get an RSS feed (when clicking on the link from the output of the plugin, link is …display/podcast/show/podcasttitle/).