States

Plugin states and their meaning

Sortable is enabled

Type - Yes/No

Indicates fi the sorting feature is enabled.

Dragged Item ID

Type - text

Indicates the ID of the element that is currently dragged. If the data source of repeating group is a list of a thing, then this state will be empty because the item will not have an ID.

Copying in progress

Type - Yes/No

This state is to use with action Copy sorted to new DB. Indicates if the copying is still in progress.

Copying process percentage

Type - number

This state is to use with action Copy sorted to new DB. Indicates the status of copying process in percentage.

Saving to DB is in progress

Type - Yes/No

This state is to use in correlation with action Save sorted DB field list Indicates if saving data is in p

RG new order

Type - text

This state is to use in correlation with Initial Order feature. This order text is in a format that is used in plugin logic, it does not contain elements IDs or indexes. It is used to be saved somewhere in your database and use later in a repeating group to set reorder things as they were saved. For example, admin sets an order on his admin dashboard, saves the order, and on users page this order is reflect on users repeating group. More details, see in Initial Order - Feature page.

Reordered things IDs

Type - list of texts

Contains a list of IDs in a new order after reordering things. Updates when item is dropped. Sometimes it is not available instantly, so you can use this in correlation with event State ready: Reordered Things IDs, this event is triggered when the state was updated and is ready to use.

Sorted things Items

Type - List of things

The plugin can sort a list of things and publish the result in this state.

To use this feature, we have added 2 new fields in the plugin element. The fields are optional, use them only if you need this feature.

See them in plugin settings:

field 1: Items Type

field 2 List Of Items

When the result will be ready, an event called Reordered Things List is Ready will be triggered

Demo example of this feature here:

https://ezcodepluginsdemo.bubbleapps.io/sortabe_sort_things_list