Customizing the list for sorting assets in the Pro Client, Brand portal and Share client in Elvis 6

Info: This features requires Elvis 6.6 or higher.

When searching for assets in the Pro client or Brand portal, or when viewing assets that are shared, the displayed assets can be sorted by using the Sort list.

Figure: The Sort list in the Pro client.

Default list items

By default, the list contains the following items (shown in order):

¹ In Elvis 6.6 – 6.34, 'name' is listed as the fifth item.

² In Elvis 6.6 – 6.34, 'name' is listed as the third item.

Customizing the list

The list can be customized to show specific items by changing the following option in Elvis Server:

• File: cluster-config.properties.txt
• Option name: 
• For the Pro client and Brand portal: proClientSortFields
• For the Share client: authKeySortFields.
• Value: One or more values can be defined (multiple values should be separated by a comma). Each value should follow these rules:
• The value should be a metadata field in Elvis.
• The value should not be a multi-value field (its multi-value setting should be set to false: multivalue=false).
• The value should not be a field containing a taxonomy list.
• The value should be Indexed as un_tokenized (index=un_tokenized) or set up with a pureLowerCase analyzer: (analyzer=pureLowerCase).

The default fields are as follows (in order):

• For the Pro client:
• name¹
• created
• fileSize
• assetCreated
• assetModified
• relevance
• downloadCount
• viewCount

¹ In Elvis 6.6 – 6.34, 'name' is listed as the fifth item.

• For the Share client:
• name¹
• created
• fileSize

¹ In Elvis 6.6 – 6.34, 'name' is listed as the third item.

• Example: Here, the Sort list is customized to only show the fields 'name', 'resolution', 'created', and 'rating':

proClientSortFields=name,resolution,created,rating

How the sort list is populated

The client checks the list and filters out non-existent fields. If one or more existing fields are found then these are shown in the list.

If the configured setting does not contain any existing fields, the server defaults are used:

• For Elvis 6.35 or higher: The first field in the list is the default.
• For Elvis 6.6 – 6.34: The default field is 'name'. If this field is not in the list, the first field will become the default.

Document history

• 15 July 2022: Updated section 'Customizing the list' by adding a note stating that the value may not be a field containing a taxonomy list.