In my site I use Community Builder to manage users and subscriptions, and I use SEBLOD to manage contents.
I've got FREE members and VIP (paid) members.
I've got for example let's say this 4 user groups like so:
Public (ID 1)
-Registered (ID 2)
--Free users (ID 3)
--VIP users (ID 4)
When a user is a FREE member he is assigned to the Free users group and when a user is a VIP member he is assigned to the VIP users group.
I also have a field in the Community Builder database table which changes its value depending if user is FREE or VIP. If the user is FREE the value of the field is 0 and if the user is VIP the value is 1.
The question is: How to sort the articles displayed by a SEBLOD search type so that the articles which belong to the users in the VIP users group to be first?
I've been torturing myself with this task for days now without success and will be very grateful to anyone who could give me some ideas or help please.
We're not the developers of SEBLOD so what we can suggest is pretty limited. My guess is you'd need to modify their search Joomla plugin to implement some sort of custom sorting by joining the _comprofiler table on the created_by with id.
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What if the search is done by the default Joomla! Search or by the Joomla! Smart Search? Can I somehow sort that results by user group or by my CB VIP subscribed field then?
SEBLOD would need a Joomla search plugin for Joomla to search it unless it's using Joomla _content for its storage. That search plugin is what you'd need to modify. If it's using Joomla _content then I don't know what to suggest other than maybe developing a custom search plugin to query for and output the results however you're wanting.
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