@adamcooke Can you explain a little more as to how you intended this to work? I wouldn't mind submitting a PR for such functionality.

The Service model has a field called position which is used to set the order that services are displayed in the interface. Unfortunately, this attribute isn't exposed anywhere.

I think I was just thinking of adding a simple JQuery UI sortable widget which would let you just drag and drop the order of services on the service list page.

I'd pop a form around the whole table, put a hidden field - hidden_field_tag('order[]', service.id) - on each table row and then automatically submit the form when the order was changed. A controller action will receive the order param array with the IDs in order and that can be passed to the model...

Finally, I would likely add a class method to Service called reorder which accepts an array of IDs in the which they should be displayed and update all the services with their new positions.

def self.reorder(ids)
  ids.map(&:to_i).each_with_index do |id, index|
    service = Service.find(id)
    service.update(:position => index + 1)
  end
end

👍I was thinking the same. I'll try and submit this unless you or anyone else beats me to it.

Did this get anywhere? Looks like it went dead but i think its an important feature so that messing with the database in the background is not required.

+1 on the feature, it looks like the internals already allow for this to work so it would be a nice to have.

+1

Any news about reorder? I need sorting inside "service group". How I can do this?
If I add services with name 4, 2, 3, 1 this list not sorted by name.