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title: "Important: Manual order can be reversed"
manual: "Academic Programs"
version: "main"
source: "Changelog/3.0/Important-ManualOrderCanBeReversed.rst"
rendered: "2026-09-19T10:44:27+00:00"
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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, so 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.

## 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.

**academic_partners** and **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.