Sorting nodes visually in Drupal

I have created a photo gallery for several web sites using CCK. I created a new content type and added a numeric select list field that allows the client to change the order of the photos in the gallery (views with a jquery lightbox).

The problem is that there are now too many photos to manage the sort easily. The only way for the client to change the sort 开发者_运维百科order is to edit each photo node individually.

Is there some sort of drag and drop sorting that I utilize to give my clients a GUI interface to sort these nodes?

I had considered Nodequeue, but I thought there might be a better solution.

A nodequeue is probably your best bet (remember that you can also do a view over a nodequeue, which makes them a little easier to use).

If your gallery is a content type, and a photo is a content type, then you can have your gallery noderef the photos. Set it up so that the noderef uses autocomplete text fields, and you can then drag-and-drop the ordering on the gallery edit page.

This sounds like a prime case scenario for Draggable Views. It takes a little bit of setting up, you have to make a new page (in your current view) that is used only for administrative sorting, but once done it should work perfectly as you are describing.