Manual sorting of products

[andris-sevcenko]

Created by: Dominik ([email protected]) on 2016/02/23 10:40:57 +0000
Votes at time of UserVoice import: 61

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Make products manually sortable

(e.g. to map the sort order to some kind of popularity metric)

[andris-sevcenko]

Created by: Jeremy Daalder ([email protected]) on 2016/07/23 04:14:19 +0000

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Products should be sortable by drag and drop in the back end, and when you pull products into templates this manual order should be the default and/or and an option (.order('manual') or similar)

[andris-sevcenko]

Created by: Terry Upton ([email protected]) on 2016/07/23 12:40:15 +0000

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This would be really useful. +1

[andris-sevcenko]

Created by: Alex ([email protected]) on 2017/03/01 16:54:56 +0000

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we need this!

[andris-sevcenko]

Created by: Thijs Kaspers ([email protected]) on 2017/06/22 08:57:01 +0000

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Yes! Like a structure, drag/drop order..

[andris-sevcenko]

Created by: Peter Oliver Geller ([email protected]) on 2017/08/08 16:58:04 +0000

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Is that feature planned in the next time, otherwise we try to do it differently.

[andris-sevcenko]

Created by: Anonymous ([email protected]) on 2017/11/14 18:07:51 +0000

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A must

[andris-sevcenko]

Created by: nermin ([email protected]) on 2018/03/04 12:28:39 +0000

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Definitely a must to have

[andris-sevcenko]

Created by: Mat Johnson ([email protected]) on 2018/03/16 01:34:19 +0000

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was thinking it could operate like entries - ie, structured vs channel

[oadslug]

+1 This is a must have for client.

[matt-adigital]

+1 to this! Would be extremely useful if we could reorder products within a product type like we can with structure entries currently.

[lukeyouell]

+1 it's a common request from clients

[rob-c-baker]

+1 This would be extremely useful.

It's not a good user experience to have a custom, number based "sorting" field to achieve this.

[ghost]

+1 Must have and extremely useful!

[dougalcrowder]

+1
Currently hacking a workaround, so would be great to have outta the box

[stenvdb]

Asked in Discord why this was removed from the 3.0 milestone and got a reply back from @nfourtythree (thanks by the way!). Thought this might interest others:

@stenvdb that was removed from the 3.0 milestone due to some dependencies from Craft core. At the moment we would suggest using a custom number field to set an order, this along with an on save element event to check for new products and automatically setting the number in the custom field.

I understand that this isn't quite the same functionality in the CP as a structure but it will give you the ability to have manually sorted products.

Must say, being this is the most commented on issue here, it's a bummer. Will probably build some small module/plugin to account for the lack of this functionality. Can't afford to wait on a 3.x release to add this funct.

[nitech]

This is an important missing feature. It is kind of related to faceted navigation/filtering of products. Eagerly awaiting more wholesome set of presentation techniques for product lists.

[aeu]

This is definitely something we would want as well

[tigerchick]

We really need this too. Is there anything in the works?

[stolat]

Definitely need this for a current project too!

[adrienpicard]

+1 this is an important feature for clients

[sm9]

+1 for this feature. Clients have requested this feature a few times to us, and we've been told that they could previously manually re-order products in WooCommerce and Shopify, so this was something they had expected to be able to do in Craft Commerce. I don't see any sign of this feature in the Commerce 4 beta either, unfortunately. The workarounds for using custom ordering fields aren't ideal.

[Nellyaa]

+1 also need this :)

[splendidrob]

+1 this should be the same as other entries as per a regular structure - clients want to be able to manually order their products

[tigerchick]

Have you considered assigning categories to products and then controlling order through each category instead?
I found this to be an effective solution - and arguably better than ordering products directly as it means that order can be controlled on a per category basis (which, granted, may or may not be a good idea depending on your frontend architecture).

[wmdhosting]

Variants now can be reordered manually.. as Structure

Prodcuts types >> by default work as >> Channel type section

Can you add option to select they work as Structure.. too

[sandrodunkel]

I was hoping for this functionality in Commerce 5 but it's still not possible. There is a workaround described in the Knowledge Base, but I feel like this can't be the solution to this problem. Are there plans to implement this feature?

[masiorama]

Curious about this too. My clients ask for this feature, natively.

[sandrodunkel]

Issue #3630

[wmdhosting]

This is done in 5.2

[masiorama]

How exactly?

[wmdhosting]

Structure added .. in 5.2 for prodcuts same as in sections..

[lukeholder]

Since Craft Commerce 5.2 Product types can now be set to be a structure just like entries, so products are order-able and nest-able.

Enjoy!