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 Control of order of links
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Sat Feb 11, 2006 5:52 pm
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Steve B
Joined: 11 Feb 2006
Posts: 21
Location: UK
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I would like greater control of the link orders. Basically I want to be able to say which link appears forst and which is last. Some sequencing by number, and then inside of that anything else would do.
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sortBy parameter
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Thu Feb 16, 2006 2:25 pm
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LinkAssistant
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Joined: 26 Sep 2005
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Steve, do you know about the "sortBy" parameter of the "<[FOR_EACH_PARTNER]>" variable?
This is what the Tutorial says:
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<[FOR_EACH_PARTNER]> ... <[/FOR_EACH_PARTNER]> - outputs everything which is located between the opening and the closing meta-tags for every partner from the current category/sub-category/...
Possible parameters:
sortBy - specifies the sorting order. Possible values are:
- "domain" (in this case all partners will be processed in alphabetical order by their domains),
- "description" (partners will be processed in alphabetical order by their descriptions),
- "entranceDate" (partners will be ordered by the date when they were included in your project),
- "name" (obviously, partners will be processed in alphabetical order by their names. Besides, the "name" parameter is used by default).
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This gives you quite enough flexibility, doesn't it?
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Last edited by LinkAssistant on Sat Jul 22, 2006 4:53 pm; edited 1 time in total
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Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:53 am
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Steve B
Joined: 11 Feb 2006
Posts: 21
Location: UK
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I was aware of the sort parameter, but not all the options. Sorting by name and miss using the name field is one option. Thanks
Steve
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Control order of links
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Sat Jul 22, 2006 5:26 am
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flemings
Joined: 15 Mar 2006
Posts: 10
Location: New Zealand
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I currently create a status for link partners called "Premium ( )". For partners that give me hits from their link pages I maintain a record of how many hits I get in the "notes" field. I then list them as "Premium (1), Premium (2), etc to Premium (10+). This allows me to figure which are my best and worst linking partners. I would like to be able to give my best linking partners preference in each link category so they show up first before other partners that I do not get any return hits from.
It would be good if I was able to have some other way of sorting them in order to be able to do this.
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Re: Control order of links
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Sat Jul 22, 2006 5:59 pm
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LinkAssistant
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Joined: 26 Sep 2005
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It would be good if I was able to have some other way of sorting them in order to be able to do this.
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All right, David... Unfortunately (as you already possibly know), for now LA doesn't allow you to do exactly what you're asking for.
I suppose we can add such a functionality, but I'd like to hear your opinion on how should we do it better:
d'you think we should simly add additional values to the "sortBy" parameter of the "<[FOR_EACH_PARTNER]>" variable (for example, <[FOR_EACH_PARTNER sortBy="status"]>), or we'd better add a special weight-field where you can enter integer values and then simply sort by this weights?
What do you think, David?
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Sun Jul 23, 2006 2:55 am
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flemings
Joined: 15 Mar 2006
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Location: New Zealand
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Creating a special field where you can enter a "weight integer" sounds the best to me.
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Custom fields/columns
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Sun Jul 23, 2006 12:51 pm
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LinkAssistant
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Joined: 26 Sep 2005
Posts: 820
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Thank you for your reply
I think we'll do the following: we'll allow users to create their own properties for link partners - thus you'll be able to create a new integer property named "Weight" - after that a new field in the partner's edit dialog will appear and also a new column called "Weight" in the main table.
Of course, you'll be able to sort by any of these newly crated fields...
I believe this should solve the problem.
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Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:44 pm
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flemings
Joined: 15 Mar 2006
Posts: 10
Location: New Zealand
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Great idea. This will make it far more flexible. You guys are the best!
Cheers.
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