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PODrupal 6: sort display of node references
 

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    <p>I have a content type that references multiple nodes, and I need a way to sort the display of those referenced nodes.</p> <p>Any ideas?</p> <p>--- EDIT --- Clarification:</p> <p>I'm not using views, but rather am using my own queries.</p> <p>I have a bunch of teachers (teacher content-type), and some conferences (conference content-type).</p> <p>Within the conference content-type I want a node-reference field set to handle multiple teacher selections. But I need to be able to manually order them independently. What that means is that each individual conference needs to be able to sort the order of the particular teachers selected.</p> <p>That's the ideal situation, but not the way I'm actually doing it.</p> <p>What I'm ACTUALLY doing to jury-rig this thing is to have separate node-reference fields (teacher 1, teacher 2, teacher 3 etc.). Each node-reference field independent of the others.</p> <p>It makes for a mess when it comes to creating views or composing db queries. </p> <p>I know what I'm looking for is all but impossible, but I thought I'd run it by the Drupal gurus here anyway...</p> <p>--- EDIT 2 --- Further clarification:</p> <p>Another way to do what I want, but is really impractical, is to create a separate nodequeue for each conference. Then you could select a handful of teachers associated with each conference and order them via the nodequeue. - That should help with visualizing the problem. But as a solution, it's even more messy (in terms of administration) than the one I'm currently using.</p> <p>Also: I should mention that we're talking about 40 to 80 conferences, and 100-200 teachers. Just to get an idea of why I'm looking for a more elegant solution than the two I mentioned above.</p>
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    1. COIf you are coding then show the code.
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    2. COShow the code for what exactly? Some of the current db queries I use in my current configuration? I don't know how that would help my question.
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    3. COHrm, then I do not know what you are asking. Some query builder that is not Views? EntityFieldQuery only exists in Drupal 7 but that only works on a singular entity and so you definitely wont be able to order entities on some property of referenced entities.
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