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Deki Wiki organizes pages in the navigation panel alphabetically by page path.  You can leverage the following workaround to create pages A and B, such that B displays before A:

  1. Create page A.
  2. Create page B, but use a name that will cause it to appear before B (such as 1B).
  3. Edit page 1B and rename it to B.
  4. You now have two pages called A and B, but B is displayed before A.


View sample of pages A and B.

  

Note:
If you use the following number scheme: 1, 2, 3, ..., 10, 11 12, ...
You will get this ordering:  1, 10, 11, 12, ..., 2, 3

If you want the pages to be ordered by numeric value, use this number scheme:  00001, 00002, 00003, ..., 00010, 00011, 00012
 


 

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Unfortunately, this is a poor workaround as search results display the original name. So, for example, if you are adding a page called "beavers" and you want it to be displayed before "aardvarks" and you give it the temporary name "1beav" just to move it to the head of the list, the page title displayed in the search results will be "1beav" even after you've edited the page name to "beavers". edited 04:58, 6 Jun 2008
Posted 04:57, 6 Jun 2008
I agree, this is a tough design limitation. The nice part, is that even if you change the name to affect the order of listed items, links to the original filename will automatically be redirected to the new filename, so no links are broken. Of course, a user will see the "Redirect" message in the upper-right.
Posted 22:17, 14 Oct 2008
Seconding those, there are lot of logical structures, ABC sorted is only one of those. There are several situations, where i want to define the order of pages myself, so a real solution for this (instead of this workaround) is really needed.
Posted 14:08, 2 Feb 2009
this isn't a scalable solution. I think a page order property would be better. Enable setting order like Netflix allows DVD ordering in a queue. The only difference is that more than one page can have the same order. When multiple pages have the same order, then order by title. A site wide default page order value could be set/managed via the CP. I don't know much about I18N, but is the proposed approach I18N friendly? Can you change the presentation title for each language? if so, the order won't be obvious or apparent for the reader in other languages.
Posted 00:03, 4 Jul 2009
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