Unsorting the Group list

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Unsorting the Group list

Postby hadv » Wed Jul 13, 2011 8:49 am

When adding groups to the group list they are inserted in an alphabetical order.
In a previous version you could change that order by editing the .nbi file, but that does not work in V6.
Is there a way to 'unsort' the group list so that the groups can be ordered to my fashion?
If not, could this functionality be included in a next version? Thanks.
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Re: Unsorting the Group list

Postby DThor » Wed Jul 13, 2011 9:15 am

Yes, I believe that ability is not currently there, but is on the list for a future release.

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Re: Unsorting the Group list

Postby squib308 » Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:55 am

I too, would like to ability to at least manually re-sort my groups. There's ones that are important(ish) at the top of my v5 list, and not-so-important lower down, as well as 'groups' of groups that are similar but might have different prefixes.. They're not so similar necessarily that I want to make a group inside newsbin for them, but it would be nice to be able to move them around where I want them.. ala 5.x. :)

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Re: Unsorting the Group list

Postby Quade » Fri Jul 15, 2011 9:56 am

Change is bad, I know that....

I know people want group order stuff, I'll get right on it. I don't typically load groups, I load entire topics into the post list.
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Re: Unsorting the Group list

Postby bAdbOb » Wed Sep 21, 2011 7:14 pm

+1 to sort groups.

Thank you for a great product! Love the new V6 design!!!
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