Invalid sorting inside container after copy/paste container into another place / page

[OlivierSC]

Hi,

I have an issues with copy and paste container.
The sorting of contents inside the pasted container is wrong.
Example

Page 1
  [container ]
         - content 1 (sorting 4)
         - content 2 (sorting 16)

if I copy/paste [container] in another empty page, the result is :

Page 2
  [container (copy) ]
         - content 1 (sorting 256)
         - content 2 (sorting 768)

The result is the same no matter the page is empty or with existing contents, and no matter where I paste container (top, middle of contents or bottom)

Tested on :

• TYPO3 v13.4.9
• Container v3.1.8

There are some other issues about sorting, but these are not exactly about the same behavior.

EDIT :
Daniel Diesenreither mention the same behavior in PR #610 (but the PR is merged / closed)
#610 (comment)

achimfritz i think this introduced a bug when copying a container. I have a container with 2 textmedia inside of it. When copying the container and insert it above the original container the sorting of the two textmedia changes.

Edit:
it is working until 3.1.6
Originally posted by @siwa-ddiesenreither in #610 (comment)

[chrrynobaka]

Chiming in here, we're also having issues with container sorting, same TYPO3/Container versions (v13.4.9, v.3.1.8).

The specific issue we're facing is related to nested container elements, though...

[container_1] 
    |-- [container_2]
        |-- [image]
    |-- [text]

moving either the [text] element or the inner [container_2] element to reorder the [container_1] children ...

[container_1] 
    |-- [text]
    |-- [container_2]
        |-- [image]

... but upon reloading the page, the order/sorting is reset/broken again.

And I, too, noticed a recent supposed bugfix related to people reporting similar behavior and the issues being closed.
As OP mentioned, there still seem to be a few issues with sorting as it is now.

[OlivierSC]

@achimfritz I've manually tested the correction (line 154 in CommandMapPostProcessingHook class) and it resolve the problem 👍 .
I later noticed that drag & drop a container has the same behavior (invalid sorting inside container after drag and drop), and this correction also resolves the drag and drop behavior.
Thank you.

[mark-kirstein]

Hey there,

can confirm chrrynobakas comment. One of my client is using multiple nested containers. After creating or dragging an element, the sorting doesn't fit, so the element appears in wrong spot.

TYPO3 Version 12.4.29
Container Version: 3.1.8

For example:
There are one content element with sorting value of 2080 in a nested container element. After creating a new content element above this one, it becomes a sorting value of 3618 and appears at the bottom of the container element instead of before the mentioned content element with sorting value of 2080.

Any ideas?

Greez

Mark

[OlivierSC]

@mark-kirstein as I said in last comment, the correction made by @achimfritz (line 154 in CommandMapPostProcessingHook class, see here) resolve both "copy/past" and "drag and drop" issues.
You can try to patch manually your code, and check/confirm if it's OK for you :
https://github.com/b13/container/commit/3638fd7223daf3dc9f33055ccbd84411db4b3a65.patch

[mark-kirstein]

Unfortunately it doesn't solves the problem. In my case creation of a new tt_content element causes the issue. Tried again and if the new element should be placed as the first one in multiple nested container, the sorting isn't correct and after saving and closing, it appears at the bottom of the container element. Creating a new element after the existing first one, everything works as expected.

[mark-kirstein]

@achimfritz Do i have do create a new ticket for my problem, it still exists.

[achimfritz]

@mark-kirstein did you run container:sorting --apply and container:sorting-in-page --apply commands? are they ok? Does this also occure on a TYPO3 "Vanilla" Installation, with only EXT:container and EXT:container_example installed? if so, please create a new issue, with Vanilla-Setup and min. Content-Elements as description

[mark-kirstein]

@achimfritz tried the commands before using the patch without success. Will check the behaviour in another project and come back later on.

[mark-kirstein]

Short update, the costumers told me to wait with further testing. Will come back to this, if he decides to test further.