Draggable views weights not applied? I have hard time setting up a DraggableViews (DV) view to re-order content. The DV actually does save the weights - they appear correct in the draggable table, but on the user side (when viewed on the site page) the weights are all zero (not retrieved?).

The site is bi-lingual and the content is tagged with a vocabulary. The purpose of the DV is to set the order within a term. In the header there's an exposed filter to allow the admin set the correct sequence within a term.

To my eyes, the query run to generate visitor's view is correct, but I'm not an expert.

Please refer to the attached mockup image to get an idea what's going on.


I have the latest version of DV + Views 3.5.

Has anyone been through this? Does this have a known workaround? Is this module limitation or is it the view set up incorrectly?

Edit: 

User-facing View:

SELECT draggableviews_structure.parent AS draggableviews_structure_parent, node.title AS node_title, node.nid AS nid, node.language AS node_language, draggableviews_structure.weight AS draggableviews_structure_weight
FROM 
{node} node
LEFT JOIN {draggableviews_structure} draggableviews_structure ON node.nid = draggableviews_structure.entity_id AND draggableviews_structure.view_name = 'project_reorder' AND draggableviews_structure.view_display = 'page' AND draggableviews_structure.args = '[]'
WHERE (( (node.status = '1') AND (node.type IN  ('project')) AND (node.language IN  ('en')) ))
ORDER BY draggableviews_structure_weight ASC


Sorting UI View

SELECT draggableviews_structure.parent AS draggableviews_structure_parent, node.title AS node_title, node.nid AS nid, node.language AS node_language, draggableviews_structure.weight AS draggableviews_structure_weight
FROM 
{node} node
INNER JOIN {field_data_field_genre} field_data_field_genre ON node.nid = field_data_field_genre.entity_id AND (field_data_field_genre.entity_type = 'node' AND field_data_field_genre.deleted = '0')
LEFT JOIN {draggableviews_structure} draggableviews_structure ON node.nid = draggableviews_structure.entity_id AND draggableviews_structure.view_name = 'project_reorder' AND draggableviews_structure.view_display = 'page' AND draggableviews_structure.args = '{\"field_genre_tid_i18n\":\"1\",\"language\":\"en\"}'
WHERE (( (node.status = '1') AND (node.type IN  ('project')) AND (node.language IN  ('en')) AND (field_data_field_genre.field_genre_tid = '1') ))
ORDER BY draggableviews_structure_weight ASC


Note that the sorting view makes use of arguments (derived from exposed filter), while the user-facing one does not. I would think this might case the problem.
Solution from Chris (original post):

It worked to me.

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Only solution that worked for me was the following:


go to your content type/vocabulary
add a weight field (label: weight | machine name: weight | field type: integer 
edit your sorting view and add sort criteria for your newly added weight field 
edit your draggable views field and change "Handler" from Native to FieldAPI
under Field select your weight field 
-go to your content view and add the new weight field as you sort criteria


This is the only thing that worked for me. If it doesn't work immediately, just reorder a few items on your draggable view so that the ordering values are reset.

Hope this works for you too.
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