Add weight property to pieces for ordering

A feature that comes up occasionally from clients is manual ordering that would be respected across the site. So if I have staff I can, through some UI, drag them into an order that’s respected across the site in widgets, indexes, etc.

The weight property in Drupal and order (I think) in Wordpress works like this. It might take a bit of config to get it set up in those CMS, but it’s a pretty valuable option. Importantly this would have the UI for drag sorting rather than needing to set a number in each piece’s UI.

[boutell]

Closing as we now have the apostrophe-pieces-orderings-bundle.

[tortilaman]

I’ve implemented a weight field in some projects recently, and there are a couple issues with that:

1. Make sure you don’t sortify an integer field, that’s a really annoying thing to figure out.
2. When you change the weight of one item, it doesn’t affect the weights of other items. I guess this is why it’s a weight and not an order.

I’ve been looking to figure out some way of actually ordering things as well, but hadn’t gotten around to fully implementing anything yet. I think this would be really valuable.