Sort view by an ordered string of IDs

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November 12, 2020 at 8:19 am #1841817

umbertoZ

Hi, I've CPT Books and CPT Stores. Eash store has a text custom field where I store a string of IDs of Books, like "345,65,2301,4".

I built a view where I filter books by the string of IDs, so I get only the books of the selected Store. My problem is that I'd like to sort the books in the loop just like they are ordered in my custom field string. So this should be the order of the items in my loop:

1 Book with ID 345
2 Book with ID 65
3 Book with ID 2301
4 Book with ID 4

Is there a way to do it? Can you give me some idea how to customize wpv_filter_query to sort items by the string order?

thanks

November 12, 2020 at 8:24 am #1841825

umbertoZ

My issue is resolved now.

I found the solution here:

https://toolset.com/forums/topic/view-orderby-original-order-of-arguments-in-shortcode-parameter/#post-1120499

Thank you!