[thelist] Custom sorting/ordering of query results

[Frank]

At 10:39 AM 2005-08-23, you wrote:
>surely the sort orders that he is requesting are not arbitrary;

Close enough to arbitrary. Just to add some context.

It's an art site. An artist is a category in a hiearchical tree. The artist 
is related to a top level category, there are products related to the 
artist. Each product as a "type", perhaps sculpture, or painting, or 
drawings, for example.

What my client wants is that each artist displays the list of "types" in a 
formation unique to them. One may be a sculpter first, and an painter 
second, this, sculptures would take precedence over painting. He wants to 
re-order them according to subjective importance.



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