Sortables in a custom node form

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Draggables and sortables are commonly used in the drupal core. Taxonomy, menu, cck, … . The items that are sortable always belong to ‘a parent’. If this parent is listed as sortable in another parent, then it is a cascading system with a maximum of levels. The typical tree listing together with draggable handle icons, will tell the users that they can drag. This belong to relation controls a parent with its children that all have a positional sortorder variable. In Drupal, these are called weights. I wondered if this could be quickly implemented in custom modules where you have this relation ship. Since this is everywhere in drupal, why not do the test now?