[Using Sakai] [Building Sakai] Request for votes to fix an Announcements issue (SAK-21015)

[Matthew Jones]

Yea, I just saw that too.

It seems like if the "reorderer" is turned off, date should still be the
default order rather than message_order?

  4718<http://source.sakaiproject.org/viewsvn/announcement/trunk/announcement-tool/tool/src/java/org/sakaiproject/announcement/tool/AnnouncementAction.java?annotate=81227#l4718>
                       sortedBy = "date";
 //sortedBy = "message order";
4719<http://source.sakaiproject.org/viewsvn/announcement/trunk/announcement-tool/tool/src/java/org/sakaiproject/announcement/tool/AnnouncementAction.java?annotate=81227#l4719>
                           sortedBy="message_order";
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Anthony Whyte <arwhyte at umich.edu> wrote:

> Behavior change occurred with the r81227 commit and are associated with a
> new announcement re-orderer.  See
>
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-8005
>
> and
>
> http://source.sakaiproject.org/viewsvn?view=revision&revision=81227
>
> Look at the changes to AnnouncementActionState:
>
>
> http://source.sakaiproject.org/viewsvn/announcement/trunk/announcement-tool/tool/src/java/org/sakaiproject/announcement/tool/AnnouncementActionState.java?r1=81227&r2=81226&pathrev=81227
>
> To retain a descending order (e.g., newest first) the message_order
> property needs to survive the re-ordering logic as 0 (e.g., false).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anth
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 17, 2011, at 12:11 PM, Regan, Alan wrote:
>
> > Dear Dev and Using Sakai Lists,
> >
> > I am writing to draw your attention to the following JIRA ticket:
> > "Announcements - please restore the listing of announcements to show
> newest to oldest"
> > https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-21015
> >
> > ISSUE: We are now seeing in Sakai 2.8.1 and Sakai 2.9.0 that the display
> order for announcements has changed.  In the past, the latest/newest
> announcements were always posted first.  This is because users want to see
> the latest news at the top -- for ease of use and keeping tabs on the latest
> info.  Now, we are seeing that it is listing the oldest announcements first,
> which we feel is a major, major, major problem.  (We've already received
> complaints from faculty that expect and rely on the previous behavior.)
> >
> > I have been able to confirm this problem on both our hosted installation
> of Sakai 2.8.1 as well as two of the nightly Sakai 2.9 servers.  Screenshots
> are included in the JIRA.
> >
> > If you agree that announcements should be listed newest first by default,
> please vote for the change in JIRA.  I'm hoping it's a simple fix (since it
> was working fine in earlier releases of 2.8 and Sakai)...
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > P.S. If there are valid use-cases for listing oldest to newest, then I'd
> appreciate a setting in Announcements > Options that allows the professor to
> select the display sort order (newest to oldest, oldest to newest) and
> perhaps a config flag that allows the institution to set a default value for
> their needs(?).  This way, we could set the system default to newest to
> oldest, saving faculty from having to set this each semester.  If there
> isn't a use-case or reason for the new display behavior, hopefully we can
> simply return to the previous one. :)  Thanks again!
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Alan Regan, MFA
> > Manager, Technology and Learning
> > Information Technology
> > Pepperdine University
> > (310) 506-6756
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