---- Reported by nengard@gmail.com 2009-12-23 13:07:02 ---- The tabs are in alpha order and so the preferences should be as well. Basically if you have sections under a tab the preferences should be in alpha order under each of those headings/sections. --- Bug imported by chris@bigballofwax.co.nz 2010-05-21 01:21 UTC --- This bug was previously known as _bug_ 3987 at http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3987 Actual time not defined. Setting to 0.0 The original assignee of this bug does not have an account here. Reassigning to the default assignee for the component, gmcharlt@gmail.com. Previous assignee was pianohacker@gmail.com. Bug reassigned, setting status to "NEW". Previous status was "ASSIGNED".
I can resolve this by editing the *.pref files but I'm wondering if there is an automated way to make this happen. Maybe a JS or something?
Created attachment 2201 [details] [review] Proposed fix Adding jquery tablesorter, sorting on sys pref variable by default
Pushed patch to new/bug3987_alpha_sysprefs topic branch for further testing and evaluation. I confirm that the patch seems to do what it says it does. I agree that it is desirable to be able to sort the sysprefs by name. However, I am not as sure that alphabetical order should be the default order; a better default order might be to take advantage of the fact that the system preferences can be listed in any order to arrange them in a order that would make sense for a new librarian implementing Koha. Consequently, I am requesting feedback. I have no serious objection to having the order by alpha by default, although I don't think that was necessarily Jesse's intention, so if there is silence on this matter or general agreement that default alpha sorting is preferred, I'll accept a request to merge the branch in a few days.
I actually talked to Jesse ages ago and he was starting to alpha them - but didn't get through them all. I do agree that librarians should be allowed to move them around - but I also know librarians love their alpha order :) The new division of categories within tabs makes it easier to find things, but some of those categories are still full of a lot of prefs making it hard to find the one you want without doing a 'find in page' which is what I find myself doing often - that or searching the prefs instead of browsing.
Librarians love alpha order - but please remember that Koha is translated in a lot of languages ;) The alphabetic ordering of the English tabs does not work for us. Dynamic sorting using javascript might be a better option here.
> The alphabetic ordering of the English tabs does not work for us. Dynamic > sorting using javascript might be a better option here. This bug and the accompanying patch do not address the order of the navigational tabs. The patch adds Javascript-based table sorting to the list of system preferences. Sorting will be based on your translated preference names.
Thx for the quick comment Owen. :)
I have applied this patch and tested it - but I don't see any table sorter options when applied to head ... patch did apply cleanly though.
nevermind me - it worked this morning :)
Pushed, please test and fix