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How can I display a list of elements sorted in a certain way?

We will look at how to create a list of sorted elements in the following way:

[Sorting field]
[element]
[element]
[element]
[Sorting field]
[element]
...
The basic idea will be to order elements by the sorting field, and notice when there's a change.



Order by parents
Create the following template (which I'll call "order_by_parents"):

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			<ul>
			{assign var="parentflag" value=false}
			{foreach from=$itemlist item="item"}
				{if $item->parent_name != $parentflag}
					{if $parentflag}</ul></li>{/if}
					<li>{$item->parent_name}<ul>
					{assign var="parentflag" value=$item->parent_name}
				{/if}
				<li>{$item->name}</li>
			{/foreach}
			</ul>

and call it using {cms_module module="mymodule" what="item" listtemplate="order_by_parents" orderby="parent"}

Order by field
Let's say your level has a dropdown field named "myfield", and you wish to list elements sorted on that field. Create the following template (which I'll call "order_by_myfield"):

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			<ul>
			{assign var="fieldflag" value=false}
			{foreach from=$itemlist item="item"}
				{if $item->myfield != $fieldflag}
					{if $fieldflag}</ul></li>{/if}
					<li>{$item->myfield}<ul>
					{assign var="fieldflag" value=$item->myfield}
				{/if}
				<li>{$item->name}</li>
			{/foreach}
			</ul>

and call it using {cms_module module="mymodule" what="item" listtemplate="order_by_myfield" orderby="myfield"}