Sort order of sermons in a serie

Dear Thomas,
I notice that in Global Configuration Default order sets the order for sermon lists and it applies to all sermon lists. If an end-user changes the the sort order at a particular serie (e.g. by clicking the Title column heading), all subsequent browsing to other series shall follow that order.
Can I hard-code a sort order for particular series? such as:
Series A: Sort Sermons by Descending Titles
Series B: Sort Sermons by Ascending Titles
Thanks a lot.
Ken

You could hardcode it by setting the ordering state based on the series ID.
Similar to what I do here: github.com/Bakual/SermonSpeaker/blob/mas...ermons.php#L300-L301

The question is more where you want to put that code. The only place you can adjust things without hacking files is the layout. But at this time, the items are already retrieved. So you either have to hack the files (setting the state between getting the state and getting the items) or you do the query to retrieve the items again in the layout. There is no nice solution to this.

Dear Thomas,
I hacked the model sermons.php's order function at the end of getListQuery() function.
Thank you for your advice.
Ken

Hey Ken, Would you like to describe how did you sorted the sermons by hacking the file?

Dear Khuzema,
I did this:
Edit /components/com_sermonspeaker/models/sermons.php.
Near the end of function getListQuery() you see lines, they are building the sort order of the SQL statement.
$query->order($db->escape($this->getState('list.ordering', 'ordering')) . ' ' . $db->escape($this->getState('list.direction', 'ASC')));
return $query;
}
I commented out $query->order(.... line and replace it with mine. I want my sermons sorted by publishing date.
$query->order('publish_up' . ' ' . $db->escape($this->getState('list.direction', 'ASC')));
I am concerned with some sermons which have no publish dates, and they appear in almost arbitrary order, so I added one more line:
$query->order('title' . ' ' . $db->escape($this->getState('list.direction', 'ASC')));
This make sermons sort by title, when publish_up field makes a draw.
Of course you will put sort order according to your own situation. And, also importantly, your changes will be overwritten if you later upgrade Sermon Speakers. One more disclaimer, I am just a programming amateur. Do this at your own risk.