"Order View" button enabling viewers to see entries in EITHER oldest first OR newest first

[pacific_rain_acim]

Title:
"Order View" button enabling viewers to see entries in EITHER oldest first OR newest first

Area:
Journal Entry Page of journals

Summary:
Please create a drop down box, link or button that would change the appearance of a journal's main page from the current default "Newest Entry First" to an optional view of "Oldest Entry First"

Description:
Ok :) The idea is basically what ever they do on shopping sites and in windows, where you can hit a button at the top of a column and choose to have the most recent or most distant date first. (Or highest price & lowest price.)

1. Issue to improve: Any journal that is about a process, telling a story or play, history, building of anything, diary, ...
For instance - I just created a journal to be focused ONLY on what I'm learning as I study A Course In Miracles. I wish that viewers of that journal could choose to see the beginning of the journey first - and so the First entry on top, second in second place, etc. In other words, I wish this journal had an option to show up Oldest Entry First. People starting to look at A Course In Miracles in the future might find it comforting to see what someone thought and be able to talk about it as they were reading the same pages. Also if I like it, and read it again in the future, it would be easier to follow along with myself the second or fifth time around.

2. Why my solution is best: IDK about "best" but it's easiest for the journal owner. The only other one I can think of is to use an enormously long system of tags...a tag for every 10 pages or every date? Or the option below - of adding stock journal styles that automatically show up as Oldest Entry First.

3. Problems: there would be code that would change the links at the top of every journal, that would probably be hard. Someone would just wake up and see a new button or link "Order View" next to "Recent Entries" - but for you guys it would probably be a big code?

4. Other Ways: There could be a set of the stock journal layouts that were ONLY set to "Oldest First." We could just go in and search "Oldest First" and a set of them would come up. It would be harsh, as it takes a lot of time to get your fonts, colors, etc right. But we could do it over if it really mattered to us.

*****Unless you created an Oldest First alternate down at the bottom of the layout options page - where you now have a choice of how your columns appear.

I don't know which would be cleanest and easiest for you guys.
* added button/link to each journal that switches the view of dated entries from newest on top default, to Oldest First.

* set of journal layouts that are just coded to default the Oldest First in the entries section

* a template that can be layered on or removed (like those column options at the foot of the style page)

Poll #9497 "Order View" button enabling viewers to see entries in EITHER oldest first OR newest first

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Should be implemented as-is.
16 (28.1%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
13 (22.8%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
6 (10.5%)

(I have no opinion)
21 (36.8%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (1.8%)