Omka S - Advanced Search > Sort By Customization

Omeka S
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Our Advanced Search Sort By looks like this:

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We only want it to sort by Title and Date (dc:date not when added to Omeka).

Is this possible?

Thanks,
Nicole

2

Our frontend developer looked into suppressing this a while back, it turned out to not be feasible in our analysis. That said, writing a custom search page with the Advanced Search module does offer this level of flexibility. I will warn you, that module is powerfully dangerous; it’s got a learning curve, and a LOT of options to sift through.

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Thanks for the insight. It is so odd that they never included Date in this drop down out of the box. Appreciate the response.

Best,
Nicole

4

It’s possible to modify what’s in that list a few ways… one out-of-the-box way is that those defaults come from a configuration file, so you can change them by editing your config/local.config.php file.

Adding this:

    'sort_defaults' => [
        'public' => [
            'items' => [
                'dcterms:date' => 'Date',
            ],
        ],
    ],

before the final ]; line will add a “Date” choice that sorts by dcterms:date. Also, if you set a custom default sort in the site’s settings, that will be added automatically to the sort selector. Removing things from the list is a little trickier, though.

We’re considering for a future version a feature that gives users more direct control over these sorting options for a site, to select what’s available, change the labels and ordering, and so on.

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Thank you so much! Great to hear this is on your radar for future flexibility.

Best,
Nicole