Hi,

Sorry if this is a second post, 'something weird' (tm) happened to my first post on this topic... if it is not the second post then ignore my ramblings!

I have a workflow activity which is used to create an historical record of some system graphs. The activity retrieves the image of the graph from a specified url and adds it as an article to a specified container. The following code is used to shift the new article to the top of the container:

        my $object = $container->addChild({
            className       => 'WebGUI::Asset::Wobject::Article',
            title           => 'VM Stat Graph ' . $today->strftime( '%e %b, %Y' ),
            menuTitle       => $today->strftime( '%e %b, %Y' ),
            url             => $self->get('container') . "/" . lc( $today->strftime( '%d-%b-%Y' ) ),
            styleTemplateId => $styletemplate->getId,
            templateId      => $template->getId,
            isHidden        => 1,
            description     => "<img src='" . $store->getUrl( $file ) . "' />",
        });

        # Move the item to the top of the list
        while( $object->promote ) { }

As far as I can determine from the docs, the 'promote' while loop will push the create article to the top rank within the container.

The main aim is to have a descending date view of the graphs by pushing any new graph to the top of the page. I had seen this code work when I was testing but it does not seem to work now and on playing about with rank I am not sure what the relationship between asset rank and page display order is.

My question (finally) is, what determines the order of asset display on a page? And, how can I manipulate this programmatically.

Thanks for any assistance,

Kevin