Feature: #56213 - Allow sorting file list by file meta data "title"

See forge#56213

Description

The possibility to sort files by their meta data title in the "File Links" content element has been introduced. The title attribute is part of the base metadata table and therefor available in all TYPO3 installations.

If you need further FAL fields to sort by, extend the TCA of tt_content field filelink_sorting and add metadata fields as options to choose from.

For example add the following in TCA/Overrides/tt_content.php:

$GLOBALS['TCA']['tt_content']['columns']['filelink_sorting']['config']['items'][] = ['Sort by alternative Text', 'alternative'];

Or use Page TSConfig TCEFORM.tt_content.filelink_sorting.addItems.alternative = sort by "Alternative" metadata field.

Impact

The filelinks content element has a new option for sorting "by file metadata title" which can be chosen in the drop down when creating the element.