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Board Sorting Method
Developed by Diego Andrés (https://smftricks.com/index.php?action=profile;u=1)

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Introduction
Board Sorting Method will provide the options to select a different default sort order for each board.

Features

• Select default sorting method
• Select default sorting order

Localization
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Changelog (https://github.com/SMFTricks/Board-Sorting-Method/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md)
GitHub (https://github.com/SMFTricks/Board-Sorting-Method)

I believe the repo is still private

Quote from: d3vcho on August 27, 2022, 06:48:31 AMI believe the repo is still private

I don't know how to make the repo publicly available/accessible ...

Quote from: GL700Wing on August 27, 2022, 08:03:46 AMI don't know how to make the repo publicly available/accessible ...

Sorry GL700Wing, I actually meant the GitHub repo (https://github.com/SMFTricks/Board-Sorting-Method) which Diego linked in his post. He now made it public.

Yes I think this will work, thank you.  I'll have to be careful how I name the topics, but alphabetic sorting will do what I want.  Or I could simply put a number as the first character in the order I want.

Yes you can do that and pair it with the preferred method for sorting.

It would be great if I could sort by prefix (your mod). I am using that too.

That's an interesting idea.
Though the prefixes don't really offer a real sorting method besides alphabetical or id + then a sorting method from the topic so I'm not sure it's too useful.

Very handy mod. Thank you Diego.

How exactly does sorting by Last Date function?  Is it genuinely sorting by message date, or is it just defaulting to the "standard method" SMF uses to display messages?

Default, using the id.

But if I want to force the sorting to use Last Post Date, then it doesn't necessarily work, because ID's in descending order is assuming that the last message is always going to be highest ID number.  What happens in the rare event of a data import?  There should probably be another option added (Default: Message ID) to the list, and Last Post Date should force the Order By clause.  Am I correct?

It uses the default sorting options of SMF primarily so that the default indicators are visible. Additionally, I am not editing the queries so it simply uses the options provided by SMF.

Okay, that's good to know that there's no query manipulation.  But I find this interesting.  This is how my board is set:

2025-03-10 07_28_52-Modify Boards — Mozilla Firefox.png

I click into the board and see this:
2025-03-10 07_27_27-Kagome's General Gossip and Discussion — Mozilla Firefox.png

(And that was before I selected a sort setting)
2025-03-10 07_27_54-Kagome's General Gossip and Discussion — Mozilla Firefox.png
But after I select Last Post, I see this:
2025-03-10 07_28_10-Kagome's General Gossip and Discussion — Mozilla Firefox.png

Maybe something isn't being set initially somewhere, if the default option is selected as Last Post in the Board Configuration?

Can't reproduce it.
Descending is the default sorting method, so it would display the newest at the top.

Perhaps you installed this MOD (https://custom.simplemachines.org/index.php?mod=4398) too?

Nope.  I don't have that mod.  You probably can't reproduce my experience because I've injected messages into my database, therefore the id_msg is higher than the "latest message date".  I've also run Repair Database to correct issues with the Cache.