Enable (easier) manual sorting in collumn about tyto

[jh3y]

Hey @jdittrich !

Thanks for raising an issue and helping out, it's much appreciated.

A couple of others have brought this up. I'm struggling to see an easy work around this one for sure.

I think one way could be to almost add wrappers and placeholders for the items then adding some more complex logic to the drag events which are basically going to push all other items down when an item is dragged over an item leaving an empty placeholder to be left to be dropped in. This is going to mean when creating an item, creating the placeholder too and that placeholder will have to travel with the item when it is dragged between columns I think enabling this desired behaviour.

What are your thoughts on this? Does that sound like one way to tackle the issue?

@jh3y

[jdittrich]

Hey @jh3y,
The behaviour suggested makes a lot of sense and is similar to the one applied when e.g. sorting browser tabs. However, as you say, it's a bit complex. In such cases, I had rather good experiences with jQuery+jQueryUI.
Check out this example: http://jqueryui.com/sortable/#portlets (see below for a screenshot of their demo)

It seems to match what it is needed very well and works technology- and usability-wise rather nicely. While I know about the cons of including additional libraries, I think it's worth it in this case.

[jh3y]

Hey,

Yeah I am familiar with jQuery sortable. I have used it in the past to create a dashboard full of widgets and stuff. It is certainly an option.

It will be interesting to see if there is a simple way of just adding sortable on top of what is already in place or if there is a simple bit of logic that could be added without the need for additional libraries. We make the assumption it will be complex to get working but it might not be the case.

Of course it is the case of getting some time to have a go with these issues and prioritising them accordingly.

@jh3y