Basic Asset listing woes

#1

Hey guys,
Sorry if this seems obvious!

Running matrix 4.18.0


I have a basic asset listing grouped by folder .


Within these folders various PDF’s to sort.


Is it possible to group by folder format then A-Z sort the folder contents?


Or do you have to have two listings ?

(Bart Banda) #2

It should be possible, you just set the asset listing to list pdfs alphabetically, then set them to group by parent folder using the custom grouping settings. 

#3

Ah that’s where I went wrong I had the sorting based on custom grouping rather than A-Z . I’ll give that whirl. Thanks Bart.

(Callum Gorringe) #4

Hi there

 

I know this is quite an old post now but without knowing the result I thought it might be useful for others coming across this or yourself! I had a similar setup, multiple folders grouped in a certain way so asset listing displayed documents with the headings of the folders breaking them up.  Problem being changing 'custom grouping' to 'A-Z Listing' would break the custom grouping and folders wouldn't display etc.

 

So this fix is extremely simple and may have only been relevant in my case but I forgot about the asset sorting screen on listing, from here I just changed default sorting option to 'name' and then everything worked perfectly. Normally we want our asset listings to display in the order of asset map so not a problem but this time it wasn't what we needed!

 

Anyway thought I'd post in case this was useful to someone else like it may have been for me stumbling across your original post!

#5

Hey there! Thanks so much for providing advice! Muchly appreciated. Yes I forgot about the actual listing sorting and the default was no sort!

#6

Hey there! Thanks so much for providing advice! Muchly appreciated. Yes I forgot about the actual listing sorting and the default was no sort!

#7

Another thing too - how did you go with folders within folders ?

(Nic Hubbard) #8

Another thing too - how did you go with folders within folders ?

 

You could try an additional grouping to see if that works.

(Tom Chadwin) #9

I'm not sure it would: is "by grandparent folder" an option? You might have to go for nested listings.

#10

Thanks guys for your input - I defo though of sub listings but just wanted to get your thoughts.

#11

 

You could try an additional grouping to see if that works.

Hey Nic! thanks for this I just wanted to follow up that this works ok and achieves grouping great. There isn't anyway from your experience to have a standard listing for the folder names and A-z  the children of the folders.

It's just that the Executive director comes into the middle of the list - and we want him up the top.

 

Would you just suggest two listings?

(Nic Hubbard) #12

Hey Nic! thanks for this I just wanted to follow up that this works ok and achieves grouping great. There isn't anyway from your experience to have a standard listing for the folder names and A-z  the children of the folders.

It's just that the Executive director comes into the middle of the list - and we want him up the top.

 

Would you just suggest two listings?

 

Have you looked at List Position Settings? That will move an asset to wherever you want in the list.

#13

thanks  but the custom grouping format won't allow me to use the list position setting ;( unless I am missing something

(Nic Hubbard) #14

Ah, didn't realize that was your setup. Can you provide screenshots of your settings so I can get a clearer picture of what you are trying to do?

#15

Thanks Nic!

 

I have just attached the folder structure

 

It is basically

- Folder

-- sub folder

--- redirect page

 

and list like this

 

<h2> Folder asset name </h2>

<h3> Sub folder asset name</h3>

<ul>

<li> Redirect page </li>

 

</ul>

 

 

asset-listing-folders.png

 

The problem is I cannot get the executive director at the top of the group. You might be able to tell me looking at this structure if it is possible or not.

(Nic Hubbard) #16

Thanks Nic!

 

I have just attached the folder structure

 

It is basically

- Folder

-- sub folder

--- redirect page

 

and list like this

 

<h2> Folder asset name </h2>

<h3> Sub folder asset name</h3>

<ul>

<li> Redirect page </li>

 

</ul>

 

 

asset-listing-folders.png

 

The problem is I cannot get the executive director at the top of the group. You might be able to tell me looking at this structure if it is possible or not.

 

In this case, instead of Asset Grouping I would use the list_current_asset_id feature to use two asset listings to group. It gives you much more flexibility to do what you want.

#17

Thanks Nic! I will experiment