[Zope3-dev] RFP: menu item ordering

[Jim Fulton]

Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 11:40:34AM +0200, Steve Alexander wrote:
> | 
> | >I have a feeling that there should be a way to provide greater control over
> | >item ordering.  I haven't thought of a good way of doing this.
> | >
> | >I think that the thing that makes it hard is the distributed definition of
> | >menu items.
> | >
> | >In addition, I suspect it would be best to be able to specify the ordering
> | >independent of the item definition. Of course, that makes it even harder.
> | >
> | >Does anyone have any ideas?
> | 
> | This has been discussed on this list before.
> | 
> | See the discussion "menu item ordering" around 24 April 2003.
> | 
> |   http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope3-dev/2003-April/thread.html#6697
> | 
> | 
> | I suggested a complex scheme with an optional simplification.
> | 
> |   http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope3-dev/2003-April/006701.html
> 
> Sounds interesting, but very complex.

Hm, I wonder.

 > What about a 'priority' value
> for ordering? Items with higher priority would be sorted first, and
> items with equal priority would sort by registration order. It
> isn't possible to specify the *exact* order anyway, so this may be
> enough.

Would the priorities be part of the menu item definitions? Or would they
be specified separately?  How do people pick priorities? What if everyone
picked the same priority?

Jim

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