Grid Elements

Well - this could be confusing, since the elements listed in the IRRE-field aren't grouped by their columns. So you could do a sorting that still would be broken by the columns in the page view.

So IMHO we would need a kind of "optgroup" in the list of items before we apply sorting here.

I added another sorting field to foreing_sortby, so that at least the sorting that is shown in the editing form of the grid container will look kind of "grouped" by column.

Additionally I disabled the sorting arrows and d&d sorting completley, since it won't make sense until we got a universal solution for any IRRE element.

We have the issue, that if we can't change the sorting of the elements we have no control of excluding already displayed news of the extension tx_news.

If I change the sorting in the List-Module, the placement of the grid-column gets changed to. So this is not a solution.

If I change the sorting in the DB directly, everything works fine.

So I think the items in the IRRE field have to be sortable. Otherwise you have no control on the elements global sorting in a complex gridelement.

What have gridelements to do with already displayed news items?
Grid containers can only contain content elements, so there is no way of sorting these with GE anyway.

But: We are currently working on an improved list module, that will contain several features to handle nested grid structures correctly.
Check out the current trunk to get a rough imagination of the things to come ;-)

Still we won't make the IRRE field sortable since this would mean to implement the same nested structures there as well, which is not on our list for the upcoming releases.
Since sorting will be possible via D&D AND with the list module in GE 2.0, I don't think we will implement this additional sorting option at all.