I was wondering the same thing. I'm okay with how it is for now, but eventually would love to be able to change the order so that the most important app can be placed first.

Hey guys,

Currently you can't really "order" the apps right now but it's planned for the future

Thanks for the heads up on this, glad to hear that it's planned for the future.

Out of curiosity - what determines the order in which they appear? I might take a stab at hardcoding it in for the moment.

Hello John,

There's no "ordering" column for it right now yet They are ordered by the primary key which is ID I believe.

Does that mean you could uninstall the apps and reinstall them in the order that you'd like them to appear?

Yep, that could work as well

I tried a couple of ways to reorder the apps but to no avail:

1) I changed the primary key IDs in the database
2) I uninstalled and reinstalled the apps

Any other thoughts on how ES chooses the app order on a user's profile?

Hello John,

Try this, edit the file /components/com_easysocial/views/profile/view.html.php and at line 191 locate the codes below,

$options	= array( 'view' => 'profile' , 'uid' => $user->id , 'key' => SOCIAL_TYPE_USER);

Replace it with,

$options	= array( 'view' => 'profile' , 'uid' => $user->id , 'key' => SOCIAL_TYPE_USER, 'order' => 'desc', 'sort' => 'id');

This would force MySQL to sort apps by id in a descending order. Currently it's actually being sorted by MySQL as we do not explicitly sort apps

Mark,

I tried this with both 'order' => 'desc' and 'order' => 'asc' and neither seem to change the ordering of the apps. For my site, there is a particular use case that I have in mind for being able to control the order of the apps. Is there another approach that you can suggest?

- John W.

Hello John,

The codes above enforces the sorting based on the app id. If you want to reorganize your apps ordering, you'll probably want to uninstall them and re-install the apps again so that they get a fresh set of id.

OK. I'll give that a shot. Thanks Mark.

You are most welcome

I've tried multiple different ways of getting the apps to order in a descending manner, but just cannot get it to work. My apps and their ID's are as follows:

113 - Ratings of me
112 - My reviews
111 - My listings

No matter what I try and no matter what the appID, the order that they appear is always as follows:

My reviews
My Listings
Ratings of me

How can I verify that the code that you provided above actually produces a result set with the apps ordered by ID descending as it does not appear to work.

- JW

Hello John,

The code that I have provided above ensures that the apps are sorted by "id".

Mark,

That's weird because that's not the behavior that I'm seeing. Let me check it again.

- JW

To be honest, I really have no idea as to why it isn't sorting and I probably guess the id is not correct.

Doing a bit more troubleshooting on this - some questions:

1) Would it matter that these JReviews apps are set as widgets to appear above the stream in the user's profile?
2) Those apps are set as 'default' apps - might that have any impact?
3) Looking at the code as follows:

		$appsModel 	= Foundry::model( 'Apps' );

		$options	= array( 'view' => 'profile' , 'uid' => $user->id , 'key' => SOCIAL_TYPE_USER, 'order' => 'desc', 'sort' => 'id');

		$apps 		= $appsModel->getApps( $options );

and doing a var_dump ($apps) outputs 'array(0) { } '

Hello John,

Perhaps if you could supply us with your site's access and FTP, and phpmyadmin, I will help you to quickly check on this when I have some free time