Improving finding items in large collections

[dur41d]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I have a blog like site that has thousands of articles. The articles are organized by categories or sections. The current admin UI only shows a flat list of the article titles. It's not possible to see the sections of each article without opening the article. Also, it's not possible to see the articles of a particular section.

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like the ability to filter and group the collection items by their sections so that I can manage large collections more easily.

[erquhart]

You can use filter for that.

[dur41d]

Thanks @erquhart. that would work. The only problem is that you have to re-define with all the fields for each category. But it's not that bad.

In any case, I found that the admin interface is very lacking. For example the articles are sorted by create date in ascending order and it cannot be changed. The admin interface seems to be designed for simple sites with few items and not large collections and relationships.

[erquhart]

Yeah, it's not as simple as it seems - sorting the contents of a directory which may or may not be paginated requires a sorting API in the host (GitHub, GitLab, etc) or else downloading of the entire directory of contents up front to sort by. Here's an issue with our latest thoughts: #54 (comment)

[dur41d]

Not simple indeed. One solution I can think of is to build an index that is only modified with the git diff for each commit. i.e. it's built incrementally to avoid downloading the whole content.

However, the main issue here is solved so I'll close it. Thanks.