My products in categories are displayed in descent order

6. Products in categories are displayed in descent order

Today I noticed that products in categories are displayed in descent order . First product displayed is the last one added in stock for respective category .
Is there a setting to solve that ?

It is normal behaviour of 1.5 version ?

Have you given any of the products a sort order? Without a sort order, Zen Cart will do its own sort.

I have Display Product Listing Default Sort Order = 2a like Production environment but products are displayed from the last added till first added on stock for each category . Is there other options to set ?

solo_400:

I have Display Product Listing Default Sort Order = 2a like Production environment but products are displayed from the last added till first added on stock for each category . Is there other options to set ?
Nope.. do you have values in your sort order field??

SOLVED .

The only way to do it is changing includes/index_filters/default_filter.php

case 'PRODUCT_LIST_NAME':
// $listing_sql .= " order by pd.products_name " . ($sort_order == 'd' ? 'desc' : ''); Instead order by NAME i choose ordering by date added !
$listing_sql .= ' order by p.products_date_added DESC';

Please put this option on next release :-)

solo_400:

SOLVED .

The only way to do it is changing includes/index_filters/default_filter.php

case 'PRODUCT_LIST_NAME':
// $listing_sql .= " order by pd.products_name " . ($sort_order == 'd' ? 'desc' : ''); Instead order by NAME i choose ordering by date added !
$listing_sql .= ' order by p.products_date_added DESC';

Please put this option on next release :-)
Are you talking about the store-side displays?? (Honestly.. that wasn't clear from your post which is why we all responded thinking you were talking about the admin side)

Sorry , my english is not the maximum.

I was talking about normal browsing . When selecting any category in order to visualize the products ( if I understand well ) only this sort available options :

Products Display Order by

0= Product ID
1= Product Name
2= Model
3= Price, Product Name
4= Price, Model
5= Product Name, Model
6= Product Sort Order

As we see Date Added missing .

I'll jump in to say that this is what the new products listing is designed to do. If you want to bring attention to new products, then new products listing is the way to do it throughout the site.
I could see where it MIGHT be advantageous to have products sorted by date added but, I can't see any reason to add it to the core. The beauty of open source is that you can make it do what you want. There would need to be a large number of "me too's" before core change might be considered. You could package this as an add-on for those that might want to use it in the future.
As far as I can tell, yours is a first. That doesn't mean it's not going to be important to you. Just not quite ready for core time.