[ansel] gallery ordering issue

[Ben Chavet]

Because of how Ansel uses the datatree driver (IE, the images are not really
children of the galleries), I think this functionallity should be put into
ansel itself.

--Ben

Quoting "Heath S. Hendrickson" <heath at outerspaceconsultants.com>:

> Okay, I'm putting this out there to see if anyone else can verify this
> problem for me.
>
> The code for honoring the datatree_order value is working as it should,
> but the value isn't actually being written when an image is being
> uploaded (at least not through the XP Publish interface).  Worse, the
> code that I wrote for the reorder function sets the order value (since
> it doesn't exist) to a sequentially incremented integer value starting
> at 1... so you end up with order value collisions... the end result
> being unpredictable.  If you never use the reorder function, then you
> just end up with some images with explicit orders set and other
> without... and this seems to have unpredictable results as well.
>
> The best fix is to make sure that the order value is properly set when
> an image is uploaded (IMHO, anyway).  This would obviously be best done
> at the datatree driver level (right?)... and since that's used by lots
> of stuff, I'm leary of touching it.  Is the datatree_order field
> currently used by anyting other than Ansel?  If not, then I can make the
> patch to the Ansel functions and be done with it.
>
> heath
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