I'm hoping to use the jQuery UI library for various things, but initially the "sortable" functionality to let a user drag and drop the order of items painted by an Asset listing page (then using the Squiz js library to write back the order to the underlying assets once the user is done). See http://jqueryui.com/demos/sortable
Keen to hear any hints and tips if anyone has done anything like that before… have searched these forums but didnt show up anything. At the moment my struggle is more with figuring out how to actually get the library and all its required css and bitmaps loaded into my design properly… jQuery itself is so much easier because its just one js file. Once over that hurdle I'm fairly confident plugging in the actual code will be easy enough, though obviously any tips from someone whose done it would be great too!
Sure, this is totally possible. I did something like this a while back and set the new sort order using a JS method. Take a look at the post I wrote about it:
http://www.zedsaid.com/blog/change-the-asset-map-sort-order-using-javascript-in-squiz-matrix
The Easy Edit Suite also almost exactly this using jQuery UI sortable for it’s linking screen.