Orchard CMS - How to [sort/order] the Manage Content list in the Dashboard?

Question

using Orchard CMS, how does one under [Manage Content] Content > Content Items in the Admin Dashboard add/extend the ability to order the content items by "something" other than [recently created / modified / published]? I haven't been using Orchard long, but this is becoming a real sore spot when I have close to a hundred items of varying types; "it makes working in the backend very tiresome, and exceptionally confusing for the end-user."

Ultimately, I would love to order by taxonomy terms I have attached to my pages etc., but I'm open to any suggestions from the community?

I also noted that Bertrand Le Roy had once created a 'TheTree' module for such circumstances, but checking the gallery [and his Git projects], I couldn't find it.

Thanks for your input, PP

rtpHarry rtpHarry · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-09T14:43:44

I'm not sure about editing that content index directly, you can probably override the view in question but I'm not sure how.

Seeing as this has gone unanswered for 5 days now I thought I would throw in one solution that I do know, which would be to do what the Orchard.Search module does. It has a feature within it called Orchard.Search.Content which adds a new tab to the Content Items page:

You can add third level tab links to pages using .LocalNav(). To produce the effect above this code is used:

    public void GetNavigation(NavigationBuilder builder) {
        builder.Add(T("Content"),
            menu => menu
                .Add(T("Search"), "1.5", item => item.Action("Index", "Admin", new {area = "Orchard.Search"}).LocalNav())
            );
    }

It does the rest using some standard code which you can see if you search the Orchard.Search project for the string [OrchardFeature("Orchard.Search.Content")] - it's all packaged up into just a few files within that module.

Orchard CMS - How to [sort/order] the Manage Content list in the Dashboard?

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