I'm trying to build a conference schedule and I would like each time slot entry in my channel to be ordered by the time designated in a custom field. My first approach used a text field {start_time} to enter the time the event begins. Then I set the entries tag to orderby="start_time" sort="as". Unfortunately, the output was as follows:
- 11:00am - 11:15am | Break
- 11:15am - 12:30pm | Breakout Session II
- 12:30pm - 12:45pm | Break
- 12:45pm - 2:15pm | Lunch & Keynote
- 2:15pm - 2:30pm | Break
- 2:30pm - 3:45pm | Concurrent Session III
- 7:30am - 12:00pm | Conference Start Time
- 8:00am - 9:00am | Breakfast Buffet
- 9:00am - 9:45am | Opening Welcome and Remarks
- 9:00am - 9:45am | Break
- 9:45am -11:00am | Breakout Session I
I understand why this is happening and have looked into Low Reorder as a possible solution. But before I purchase I was wondering if there was another solution to this that would not involve entering the times in this format: 07:30am.
Thanks!