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Default ‘selected’ <option> in browse item view

How can one change the default behaviour in the browse items page (/s/site/item)? As it is now the items are by default sorted by ‘created’. I’d like them sorted by title by default, or an easy-ish way to control that behaviour.

I can’t find it in application/view/common/sort-selector.phtml. I’ve found it for the browse preview (src/Site/BlockLayout/BrowsePreview.php), not for the full browse.

I know I can append ?sort_by=title to the address. But then when the user does an advanced search and clicks the ‘search’ button the custom behaviour is restored (unless I append the parameters with some JavaScript or edit the ‘search’ action).

Any help would be very appreciated.

Solution

  • Thanks to ManOnDaMoon on https://forum.omeka.org/t/default-selected-option-in-browse-item-view/10876 for the solution to this. The file application/src/Controller/Site/ItemController contains a function called browseAction() with this default:

    $this->setBrowseDefaults('created');

    By changing it to:

    $this->setBrowseDefaults('title', 'asc');

    I now have the list of items ordered by title, ascending.