[6.0] Featured articles can be ordered regardless of category

[chmst]

Pull Request for Issue #46333 .

Summary of Changes

Don't use the data-nested attribute when features articles are selected.

Testing Instructions

Make a few featured articles in different categories.
In the articles overview select featured articles.
Use drag an drop for re-ordering.

Actual result BEFORE applying this Pull Request

Re-Ordering is possible only in a category.

Expected result AFTER applying this Pull Request

Re-ordering is possible regardless of categories

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[HLeithner]

This will not solve the issue, the ordering for featured is saved in the different table which is not changed on the "standard" articles list. You need to update the column ordering in #__content_frontpage independent from the ordering column in #__content.

[brianteeman]

looks like the content_frontpage table is completely ignored

[richard67]

looks like the content_frontpage table is completely ignored

That should definitely not be the case. The purpose of that table is to provide separate ordering and feature up and down times for the featured articles.

[brianteeman]

a record is created in that table when something is featured but the ordering column in that table never changes

[chmst]

Please re-test. If this solution is accepted, we can change the deprecation info in the manual.

[brianteeman]

it works

[brianteeman]

correction. It work correctly in that changing the order in the admin does update the content_frontpage table BUT the front end display is still wrong

[brianteeman]

Admin

frontend

[brianteeman]

Re the above report. I can see now that the problem I reported was because of the ordering of the categories which takes precedent over the article AND that is nothing new in j6 the same is true when ordering featured articles in J5 as well. This is because the default ordering for a featured articles menu is Category order and then Article order and to truly get the articles in Featured Article order you have to set category order to no order. In other words this is not related to this PR

[brianteeman]

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on a53b7e0

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[ChristineWk]

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on a53b7e0

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[richard67]

RTC

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[chmst]

@ChristineWk and @brianteeman thanks for testing. I too was wondering about the order of articles in frontend, thank you for explaining it here.