Hi,
We have several metadata schemas that we want to place in a specific order - so they appear in such order from the Admin Interface when editing the asset's metadata.
Matrix seems to order the schemas based on alphabetical naming order - however I tried renaming the schemas (adding a prefix of "001", "002" etc) and reapplying all schemas and the order did not change. (I also tried applying the schemas in a particular order, however Matrix re-ordered the schemas after they were applied).
Can anyone please tell me how matrix decides on the order these schemas are displayed in, and also how to force a particular order?
I know you can re-order the schemas in the EES frontend, however this is for use in the Admin Interface where a lot of our metadata editing is made.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
i think it uses the creation order of those schemas. there is no option to change the order.
Thanks for the quick reply, however I just tried creating several new schemas, and applying those to some assets.
The order they appear in in the Administration Interface does not match the order they were created in ( - they are not alphabetical, or date order).
There must be some basis for the order these are appearing in?
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There must be some basis for the order these are appearing in?
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The query that Metadata Manager uses to get the schemas has no sorting clause (at all), and I don't see any sorting applied after that either.
Most of the time, I am guessing that would result in the schemas being painted in the order that they were applied (as that is the order in which it'd enter the schemas table), but that cannot be guaranteed - depends on how the database chooses to return its results from that query.