form group order on the home page

Administration
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Hello,
I created form groups that appear on the home page. I need to change the order of appearance of a few groups. I mean that a form group that appears as last on the home page would need to be first for example. is there a way to do it without changing the order in the sql base? I would really appreciate if you have a solution. Many thanks… Nick

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The ordering is by the short name of the Form Group, so you could perhaps change the short name. In theory though, a teacher is almost never a tutor for more than one form group, which is why this issue hasn’t come up before. Check my response here: https://ask.gibbonedu.org/discussion/3334/problem-on-staff-dashboard#latest

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Thank you Sandra, I will change my settings…

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The ordering for Form Groups under Home > School Admin > Manage Form Groups and Home > Form Groups > View Form Groups is different.

And my Form Groups appear to be ordered by name rather than by short name under Home > School Admin > Manage Form Groups.

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v22.0.01

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Hi Tieku. It looks like View Form Groups and Manage Form Groups are both sorting by name and not short name. The difference is that the View Form Groups also had a sort order applied to it to adjust for natural number ordering. For example, by default, MySQL will sort numbers as:

1
10
11
12
2
3
4

Whereas this doesn’t make much sense for human readability, so there is a fix applied to sort by the length first, then the name, which results in:

1
2
3
…
10
11
12

This was in place for the View Form Groups page but not the Manage page, so I’ve applied this in the following fix for v23: https://github.com/GibbonEdu/core/commit/78efa0e9193537f28031f9d707f699a50192ed43