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Project Blog Activities Order

Feb 26, 2009 11:40am Chip Sentinel 32 posts	I would like to see a “sub-heading” item in the project blog that will act as a bin to place documents, files, etc. in a grouped manner. For instance, drag in the sub-heading item in, and name it “Programming Files”. Then add Google Docs, files, or notes under this heading. The overall ordering on Date, Type, User Order, etc. will look at the sub-heading item rather than its “contents”. My application for this is pretty simple. We have many different types of files associated with a specific portion of a project that need to stay together for easy access. Currently, the sort options given do not meet our needs for quickly putting these different files together because they are not necessarily linked by a common property except our own system. Did any of that make sense?

Feb 26, 2009 11:48am Engineering SpecialOps Administrator 4124 posts	I think so. It sounds like essentially you want to group related activities. Currently the way this is done is to choose User Order, then add Notes to create section titles, then drag n’ drop the new activity to that section (it will stay where you place it).

Feb 26, 2009 11:55am Chip Sentinel 32 posts	Exactly. I want to group related activities. Okay, using Notes to create section titles sounds like a pretty good solution. Will this order be retained when another user accesses the blog by default (if User Order is selected and the other user hasn’t modified the order on his/her own)? Forgive me if I am missing something here! Thanks!

Feb 26, 2009 11:58am Engineering SpecialOps Administrator 4124 posts	Yep, that’s the purpose for User Order; so you can essentially place the items on the page where they should be to tell a story i.e. create context for the items. It is specific to the page not the specific user. Perhaps we should rename User Order to Placed Order to eliminate any confusion.

Feb 26, 2009 12:01pm Chip Sentinel 32 posts	Ah Ha! (Light bulb just came on) I see now - I DID think that User Order was just a preference of the particular person logged in. Excellent - thanks again!