When indexing assets, use "natsort"

[angrybrad]

Created by: Lindsey DiLoreto (lindsey@doublesecretagency.com) on 2015/03/11 04:48:18 +0000
Votes at time of UserVoice import: 6

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I dropped a ton of images into my assets folder, then used "Update Asset Indexes" to sync them all with Craft. But when they sync with Craft, they are not sorted in a natural order:

• my-image-1.jpg
• my-image-10.jpg
• my-image-11.jpg
• my-image-2.jpg
  ...
• my-image-8.jpg
• my-image-9.jpg

I'd imagine that this isn't an issue most of the time. However, in this case, I'm using a script to create the proper relationships between my existing entries and the new images. Unfortunately, my import script isn't capable of arranging these files in a "natural" order, since it's just iterating over the new images.

Is it possible to have the indexing script apply a natsort filter to the list of assets before indexing them in Craft?

[angrybrad]

Posted by Timothy Kelty (timkelty@gmail.com) on 2015/04/02 12:33:05 +0000

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In general, it would be neat if Craft could implement "natural" sorting with any elementCriteriaModel.
Related: http://craftcms.stackexchange.com/questions/15305/implment-fake-natural-sorting-for-elementcriteria