Add alternative to drag and drop for sorting

[plannero]

Which Umbraco version are you using? (Please write the exact version, example: 10.1.0)

10.4.0

Bug summary

Some users cannot drag&drop, but they too should be able to arbitrarily re-order child nodes

Specifics

Sorting sub-nodes can be done in two ways
a) By clicking the column header in order to sort (alphabetically or by date)
b) By drag & drop in any order the user likes

This is quite good, but not enough: Users should be able to perform all actions even if they cannot perform drag & drop (eg. due to reduced mobility of the hands, or because of not being able to see the position of objects on the screen).

Steps to reproduce

Try to manually move one content node to another relative position (without changing parent node) without using a mouse or touch screen. Not possible.

Expected result / actual result

Alternative means for arbitrary reordering of items should be added. This could be, for example, a button for “move forward” and another for “move backward”, or perhaps just one button that will move in either direction but circle around when going beyond the first/last position. OR there could be an editable integer value for position in list.

[github-actions[bot]]

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[elit0451]

Thanks a lot for raising this concern @plannero 🙌

It seems like a missing feature to have an alternative to the drag-and-drop functionality for sorting, rather than a bug. I will therefore convert this to a discussion. 🙂

[bergmania]

It's something we have in mind for V14, where the new sortting methods in the management API makes alternative UI easier.