AJAX Drag and Drop for re-ordering postings.

[Grover]

Hello,

This is my first request ever. I hope it hasn't requested before, but I couldn't find it overhere.

I am looking for a way to re-order postings in a thread. See : Ability to INSERT a posting inside an existing thread. (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=100060)

(the title is somewhat confusing : I don't need an insert-function, but I need a re-order function)

I know there are hacks outhere which give you the option to change the time-stamp of postings, but that is still very unpractical, because you have to do it on a post-by-post basis. I need a visual tool to re-order postings.

And I was thinking a while ago that the drag and drop functionality you see in an application like Windows Explorer would do the trick. So I can re-arrange postings just like files in Windows Explorer. But I thought... something like that would probably never see the light on a web'script' like VBulletin.

Until I saw the suggestion of digitalpoint : Drag and Drop AJAX (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=155512)

If this AJAX-technologie is really capable of pulling things off like drag and drop, then this is awesome. That technology integrated into a postings-overview like this:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=16402

... would give me the tools I need to re-arrange postings in extensive FAQ/Documentation-threads on my site.

I am very interested to find out if someone is capable of writing such a plugin/extension.

[Grover]

I don't have to tell you guys what's possible with AJAX and how to implement things ofcourse. For me, it's all new. I just searched for some examples on the internet and found stuff like this:

http://www.gregphoto.net/sortable/index.php
http://www.cyberdummy.co.uk/test/dd.php
http://tool-man.org/examples/sorting.html

Great.

I really hope someone could make a plugin that let's me sort my postings inside a thread.

[Mr Chad]

I don't have to tell you guys what's possible with AJAX and how to implement things ofcourse. For me, it's all new. I just searched for some examples on the internet and found stuff like this:

http://www.gregphoto.net/sortable/index.php
http://www.cyberdummy.co.uk/test/dd.php
http://tool-man.org/examples/sorting.html

Great.

I really hope someone could make a plugin that let's me sort my postings inside a thread.

Yea myspace used this as their new friends feature, you can sort them now.

its a needed feature.

[Grover]

Has some of the code-wizards overhere come up with something like this in the meantime?

[Zachariah]

Good finds. Grover.

- I might lend a hand, but busy to take it head on.

but also add re-ordering:

- Forums
- FAQ

[Grover]

Hi,

I was wondering if someone has the time and skills to create a PlugIn that let's us re-order postings inside a thread using Ajax Drag and Drop? More and more I am in need of such a system.

You see, on my forum my staff and I contruct very large and rich threads for the purposes of FAQs and other important documents. The current built-in FAQ system of VB is not very flexible and usefull to construct rich FAQ's : threads are much more usefull for this purpose. See for example this good example (http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/649229) of a great implementation. (The only good thing about the FAQ system is that you can change the display-order of the entries, which is the only thing that is missing from the thread-system).

Since I am using the threads itself to create FAQ's and other rich documents I often have the need to insert a posting in a certain position inside the thread. I assume most people don't really need this (I always concentrate on suggestions that will be beneficial for most boards), so I am hoping a Plugin can be developed for this.

Thanks!
Grover.

[Grover]

Anyone? The last couple of days I had some occasions where I needed to add a first posting to the top of a thread. I just wished I could add a reply to an existing thread and move that reply from the bottom to the top of the thread.

Are there anymore people interested in this?

[Wired1]

Just talking through it, since threads are generally sorted by date, it'd have to change the dates in it. Easiest way I can think of (various reasons for this), would be to have the first post not able to be moved so as to use it as an anchor to base the moves off of. When posts are moved around, the dates of all posts in the thread (sans the first one, the "anchor") would be organized by the time. The post marked for # 2 would be the base time + 1 min, etc.

Keep in mind that each post in the thread after a move would need its time changed.