I know that the issue has been discussed before and some progress has been made (and that many disagree that alphabetic sorting on topic title is useful), but to me it is. I am experimenting with Discourse to see if I can use it to replace NeuroDSS.com which contains neurosurgical classification and grading systems. The option that users can add their own classifications (and more) and discuss them on site is a great side benefit. Primarily however, I want users to go to categories easily and find the content they are looking for.
I managed to get the categories view first when accessing NeuroMind.cc, and modified @sam’s Minimal Topic List Design to allow the user to sort topics in alphabetical order by changing this piece in the header :
<script type='text/x-handlebars' data-template-name='topic-list-header.raw'>
{{raw "topic-list-header-column" sortable='true' order='topic.title' name='topic.title'}}
This works, but the user still has to perform the sorting manually. How can this be done as a default setting when the category is opened?
Side note: I also changed
{{raw "topic-list-header-column" sortable='true' number='true' order='replies' forceName='Replies'}}
(in the original post it said order='posts'
and it gave some side effects, guess that is a typo)
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Pieter