I have filter which filters content on a field e.g. 'topic' (art, sport, food). I display this as an horizontal accordion which slides out and the user can select a topic to narrow the search results.
This all works well but how do I custom order the field 'topic' in a custom manner? I'm guessing by adding an order column but the field is a property of the article.
Any ideas will be much appreciated.
MealType field in your article should take a tree location as it's data source. I.e.
Sitecore/content/shared/meal type
You should be able to use the content editor to manually rearrange the sort order of the items.
Then when you come to output your front end accordion, you should be able to sort the results on custom sortOrder field.
This answer here talks about this in some detail: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28700504/how-does-sitecore-sort-items-in-the-content-editor-tree
You can use tree list to do sorting, and you can select Beverage at last. Samething you can do for other Topics
