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Feature Request: the ability to re-order articles within a Wiki’s Page Hierarchy

Couldn't see this in the related articles ... and maybe I'm missing something ... but I'm trying to rearrange pages in the wiki ... I want to change the order (keeping the same hierarchy level) of some pages but it seems all I can do is promote or demote the page hierarchy ... i.e. I can't just move one page before or after another. Is this correct? I'm using the online version

Thanks

Damien

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created a feature request: fogbugz.stackexchange.com/questions/5515/… – PJM Oct 22 2010 at 15:26

closed as exact duplicate by Rich Armstrong♦♦ Feb 16 2011 at 18:01

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You are correct: Pages at the same level in the hierarchy are sorted alphabetically, you can move pages up and down in the hierarchy but you cannot change their relative ordering.

The motivation for this design was to allow you to categorize your wiki without having to worry about the precise ordering of pages within a category.

Edit to clarify the design motivation:

Let's say I'm working on a feature called Wiki Navigation and I create some wiki pages for it. With the wiki hierarchy I can create a set of pages like:

  • Wiki Navigation
    • Wiki Nav Function Specification
    • Wiki Nav Mockups
    • Wiki Nav Technical Specification
      • Backfilling ixWikiPageParent

Which is handy, because the pages are grouped together and I can get from one to the other relatively easily using the the little "related pages" widget and breadcrumbs. It does not let me change the ordering of a given level which I'd argue is a good thing because: for the most part, I don't care about the order, It saves me any time I might have spent neurotically alphabetizing pages when they accidentally get out of order and it makes the editor simpler and more reliable.

That's not much solace in those situations where you do want to control the sort order, but this is a situation where we traded control for ease of use and efficiency.

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Is there any way of over-riding this behavior?? This is nice if you wanted it this way, but rather annoying when you are trying to organize your document the way you want to. – tim Oct 6 2010 at 14:14
There is no way to change this outside of implementation changes. So if it's something you really want, please make a feature-request. – Aaron Maenpaa♦ Oct 7 2010 at 13:30
I tagged this with "feature-request". Is that sufficient or is "Feature Request:" required in the title? My summary of the feature would be "the ability to organize the page hierarchy by specifying an order within levels (overriding the default alphabetical order)". PS: I don't understand your explanation of the design motivation. "Allowing categorization" sounds flexible, but in reality you're forcing a particular ordering of those categories... not flexible at all. – PJM Oct 21 2010 at 15:49
@PJM Just tagging this questing as feature-request is not really sufficient as the body of the question isn't a feature request, it's asking for clarification... you could edit the question until it actually was a feature request, but that would totally co-opt the question, change it's meaning and would not be a "good edit". What I meant was to create a new question which said something to the effect of: "Let us change the ordering of nodes in the wiki hierarchy". – Aaron Maenpaa♦ Oct 21 2010 at 18:48
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 Side note: tagging a question feature-request is far preferred to putting "Feature Request" in the title as the tag lets us visit fogbugz.stackexchange.com/questions/… and see which feature requests people think are important. – Aaron Maenpaa♦ Oct 21 2010 at 18:49

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