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title: "Important: Manual order can be reversed"
manual: "Academic Programs"
version: "main"
permalink: "https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-programs:important-manual-order-can-be-reversed@main"
source: "Changelog/2.4/Important-ManualOrderCanBeReversed.rst"
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# Important: Manual order can be reversed {#important-manual-order-can-be-reversed}

## Description {#description}

The program list lets a visitor pick a sort field and a sort direction
independently, and it offers both directions for every field. The manual order
of the program pages, **Page sorting**, existed in its ascending
variant only. Picking it together with **Descending** rendered the
ascending list again, and the direction select snapped back to
**Ascending** without a message.

`\FGTCLB\AcademicPrograms\Enumeration\SortingOptions` now defines
`SORT_BY_SORTING_DESC`, so every combination the two selects offer is an
ordering the list really renders. **Page sorting, reversed** is
available as a default ordering of the list content element as well, on TYPO3
v12 and v13 alike.

## Impact {#impact}

Nothing changes for a content element that is already stored: every ordering
that existed keeps its value and its behaviour. One further ordering becomes
reachable: in the plugin configuration, through the sorting form, and through
the `/sorting/desc` path of the shipped route enhancer, which resolved
before but was then discarded.

EXT:academic_partners and EXT:academic_projects already offered the reversed
manual order, so the three lists now agree.

## Affected Installations {#affected-installations}

Every installation of this extension that renders the program list with its
sorting form, or that wants the reversed manual order as a configured default.
Nothing has to be done on update.