Overriding Asset Grouping sorting

(Hugh McMaster) #1

Matrix Version: 5.3.4.0

Hi all, I’ve got a rather unusual question.

I have a listing of all staff in the organisation that is sorted into a hierarchy by a single metadata field:

Director 1
Deputy Director 2
Program Director 3
General Staff 4

These groups are then sorted internally by last name.

This works perfectly for the Initial Search Page in the search asset. But in the Search Results page, we allow users to filter the list by program. While this works as it should, we have an issue with the sorting.

To be clear, Squiz sorts the groups correctly, but it’s incorrect for one particular situation. The Deputy Director is only a standard member of one of the programs, so we’ve had a request to rank him below the Program Director position for that search. So his Level 2 position would need to shift below Level 3.

I don’t see any way to override the sorting of asset groups or to specify a particular group order in Squiz.

Does anyone have any ideas?

(Bart Banda) #2

You might be able to create another metadata text field that uses that value as a default value and then run a keyword modifier on it somehow to store it slightly differently.

Then in your search (might need a separate search asset) you could create a search field that targets that and and sorts/groups by it instead?

Does that make sense?