manually reorder products

[klezmer41]

I've installed Joomla 2.5 and VM 2.0, and so far everything is working pretty smoothly. I haven't been able to figure out how to manually reorder products though. In Joomla the menus and categories have the manual reordering option with the up/down arrows, but not individual articles. And in VirtueMart the categories have the manual reordering up/down arrows but not individual products. Is this normal, and is there a way to turn on the ordering functionality?

[olesman]

To order products the way you ask you would need a row in your table to store the value.

It doesn't look like the products table has such a row. Therefore, you would not be able to just turn it on.

This would rquire a hack or the VM development team to add it in a future release.

[perlarenee]

I had a similar problem and it turns out it was something really basic that i'd overlooked. It was in configuration/product order settings or some such

[olesman]

Yes, if you go to Configuration>>Product Order Settings there are many fields you can order by.

However, none of the selections is what klezmer41 is asking for.

To manually order the products you need an order field in your database. That is how components like the article manager do it.

Now if you want to fudge your way through with the available offerings you could change your SKU's so they are in the order you want.

[sveibern]

Strange that its not possible to manually reorder products. Does anyone know if it is planned to develope this feature?

[jenkinhill]

It has been in the dev versions (2.0.3 series) for some time.

[CMYKreative]

Any update on when we will be able to manually reorder products correctly?