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In the admin module it would be extremely helpful if the issue drop downs could follow the ordering set in the issues manager instead of defaulting to alphabetical.

We've got 10 years of monthly issues, ordered reverse chronologically, but when we're editing, the drop down will show "April 1999 -- April 2000 -- April 2001... August 1999..." etc. instead of "January 1999 -- February 1999... January 2000". It's a pain in the neck for my editors to constantly have to scroll around to find the latest issue that they're working on because it ends up waaay down the list of 80 or so issues.

Hi thingwarbler,
Where do you need it?
In the "Articles Manager".

Richard,

Yes, both in the drop-down for the content wizard's "add article" module, as well as the general articles manager.

In the wizard it would be great if there was way to set the issue for all slots in one go, so you don't have to go in and select for each article being added -- typically, if you're doing them in a batch, they're all going to be for the same issue anyway.

Hi thingwarbler,
I checked this and it seems to be a complex hack.
If you want, you can submit a support ticket in order to find out if they can help you with this.
Best regards,

Sorry to bring up an old topic but this is an important feature for our new school newsletter.

We will soon have all the teachers writing to blogs each week so we will have maybe 15 extra articles each week. It is becoming quite hard to find the right article.

One solution might be to have another drop down list that will filter out articles from a certain date range (a week ago/in the last month etc).

One other thing is suggested above but not commented on. It would be nice to be able to have just one drop down for the issue when adding articles in the content wizard instead of selecting the relevent issue for all 10 articles.

I think when people are using the content wizard they would be wanting to create an issue (ie adding a whole bunch of articles in the one issue). That seems to me like the most common use of adding articles.

Thanks!

I will report this in order to be considered for future releases, if it´s possible.
Best regards,