Issue:Order ascending needs directive to select latest

Description:	Order ascending needs possibility to select latest
Extension / Version:	DPL   /   1.6.7
Type / Status:	Bug   /   open / answered

Problem

If I have count=3 and order=ascending, DPL chooses three oldest items in category and sorts those to ascending order. What I want and what in my opinion would make sense, is to have a selection directive that could take values "oldest" or "latest". That way I could make DPL show the three most recently added acticles and sort those to ascending order.

Reply

DPL offers ascending and descending order. If you want to see the latest articles you have to select descending and then you will see the most recently changed item at the top. This is "expectancy conformant" behaviour when displaying the history of a change process (I would say).

What you propose is "select by descending order but display in ascending order". DPL does not have two "ordering areas" so this can´t be done, sorry. If you feel it is really necessary you could change the source code and send me the improved version. I will then make it part of the next release.

Gero 09:43, 30 March 2008 (CEST)

But I wanted to see the most recently changed item at the bottom of the list. But I'll have to be satisfied with using what DPL can do.

I still think it is not intuitive that order=ascending does not show latest additions at all if there are more than count articles.