Automatically ordering front page album list alphabetically?

[dmcaloney]

Hi,

I have had a search through the forums but cant seem to find a solution to a problem I am having.

My site (curve theme), I have a single category which contains around 200 albums. When I view these on the front page (alblist) they are not sorted alphabetically. I have checked the option in the config settings to show them alphabetically but it doesnt seem to do anything.

I am aware I can manually sort these in the Album Manager screen, but as I said I have about 200 so this would be a real pain!

Is there a way I can do this automatically?

Thanks in advance.

[dmcaloney]

no one? 

[Niecher]

I have read your question, but I honestly do not know

[phill104]

Maybe this thread will give you the information you need - http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php/topic,75487.msg363680.html#msg363680

[dmcaloney]

Thanks Phill, but that thread isn't exactly what I am trying to do.

When I am actually in the album, I have sorted the pictures (in Config settings) to be sorted by name ascending, which is great and what I want.

My problem is that I have imported around 200 albums using the mass import plugin. These are contained in a single category on the front page. However these are displayed in the order they were imported which appears to be random.

I would like to display them alphabetically.

I can do this by editing the albums table directly in the SQL database (pos column), but I was hoping there was a code change or something I could implement instead to save this manual editing of 200+ records.

Hope that is clearer?

[Αndré]

That's a hidden config option since cpg1.5.22. In the Coppermine database, open the config table, search for the row album_sort_order and change it to

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Slightly more information can be found in the corresponding feature request: http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php/topic,75112.0.html