Core

confirmed on TYPO3 6.1.1

When using (for debugging purposes only, the snippet just prints all available media images):

lib.navigationIcon = FILES
lib.navigationIcon {
  references {
    data =  levelmedia:-1, slide
  }
  renderObj = TEXT
  renderObj {
    data = file:current:publicUrl
    wrap = {image : '|', title : ' ', thumb : ' ', url : ''},
  }
}

I get another order of records as with

lib.navigationIcon = FILES
lib.navigationIcon {
  references {
    table = pages
    uid = 1
    fieldName = media
  }
  renderObj = TEXT
  renderObj {
    data = file:current:publicUrl
    wrap = {image : '|', title : ' ', thumb : ' ', url : ''},
  }
}

If I try to get the first record using levelmedia:-1, slide the files are not sorted correctly (following the SQL-statements I see sort by for all accesses to sys_file_reference).

To reproduce it just add more than one reesource to page, make sure that you slide up the tree to get the information and than change the order of thoses ressources. The frontend output won't change.

There is another bug #43691 which describes the same form cObject IMAGE so it is related to the levelmedia.

I debugged all SQL-queries and found, that when using levelmedia the sys_file_reference table is queried twice, the first time WIHTOUT sorting and the second time with sorting. Unfortunately the first query result is used for reading the file references for the media field.

So if I manually delete a media releation and add another one, the order is correct unless I change it by ordering the relations in the media field again.

A small workaround: If you use "sorting = sorting_foreign" it works for me. hth

lib.navigationIcon = FILES
lib.navigationIcon {
  sorting = sorting_foreign
  references {
    data =  levelmedia:-1, slide
  }
  renderObj = TEXT
  renderObj {
    data = file:current:publicUrl
    wrap = {image : '|', title : ' ', thumb : ' ', url : ''},
  }
}

I can confirm levelmedia ignores sorting of FAL references in 6.1.7

blabla= COA
     blabla{
        10 = IMAGE
        10 {
            file {
                import.data = levelfield:1, media
                treatIdAsReference = 1
                import.listNum = 0
              }
        }
     }

Levelfield is done through stdwrap and leads to the function getData in TYPO3\CMS\Frontend\ContentObject\ContentObjectRenderer
This has a switch construct and for levelfield it just asks the rootline

switch ($type) {
     ...
                case 'levelfield':
                    $keyP = \TYPO3\CMS\Core\Utility\GeneralUtility::trimExplode(',', $key);
                    $nkey = $this->getKey($keyP[0], $GLOBALS['TSFE']->tmpl->rootLine);
                    $retVal = $this->rootLineValue($nkey, $keyP[1], strtolower($keyP[2]) == 'slide');
                    break;

In TYPO3\CMS\Core\Utility\RootlineUtility::enrichWithRelationFields

line 267

$rows = $this->databaseConnection->exec_SELECTgetRows('uid', $table, $whereClause);

• No ORDER clause at all.
• No enableFields respected
  • There is only $this->pageContext->deleteClause($table)
  • (this leads to an exception if a FAL reference is hidden!)

This part of RootlineUtility does query TCA but it doesn't ask for 'foreign_sortby' which would be right.

It does

foreach ($GLOBALS['TCA']['pages']['columns'] as $column => $configuration) {
  ...
  $table = $configuration['foreign_table'];
  $field = $configuration['foreign_field'];

Maybe just add

$sorting = $configuration['foreign_sortby'];

and use that (if not null/empty) for adding an orderByClause after the whereClause ?

This ought to be fixed in 6.2 with https://review.typo3.org/#/c/26727/ but that should be backported to 6.1

Yes i confirm that as well (Typo3 6.2), and it even takes media from lower levels by mistake!

I have set media records in root page and subpage 2 and levelmedia takes them all

root
.
.--subpage1
.--subpage2

1. 1 = COA
2. 1 {
3. stdWrap.required=1
4. stdWrap.outerWrap.cObject = TEXT
5. stdWrap.outerWrap.cObject.value = '|',
6. 2 = IMG_RESOURCE
7. 2 {
8. file {
9. import.data = levelmedia: -1, slide
10. treatIdAsReference = 1
11. import.listNum = 0
12. }
13. }
14. }
15. 2 < .1
16. 2.2.file.import.listNum = 1
17. 3 < .1
18. 3.2.file.import.listNum = 2
19. 4 < .1
20. 4.2.file.import.listNum = 3
21. 5 < .1
22. 5.2.file.import.listNum = 4
    #}

mh, this ts dont work in T3 6.2 :(
the output is all the same image!

here the old code in T3 4.5.xx and higher

#IMAGE
          5 = IMAGE
          5 {
            wrap = |
            file {
              width = 705c
              height = 550c
              maxW = 705c
              maxH = 550c
              import {
                cObject = TEXT
                cObject {
                  cObject = TEXT
                  cObject {
                    value = fileadmin/templates/images/products/product1.jpg
                    override {
                      required = 1
                      data = levelmedia:-1, slide
                      wrap = uploads/media/|
                      listNum = 0
                    }
                  }
                  override {
                    required = 1
                    field = media
                    wrap = uploads/media/|
                    listNum = 0
                  }
                }
              }
            }
            altText.field = title
            titleText.field = title
            imageLinkWrap = 1
            imageLinkWrap {
              enable = 1
              typolink {
                target = _self
                parameter.field = uid
                title.cObject=TEXT
                title.cObject.field = nav_title // subtitle // title
              }
            }
          }

here a new solution

5 = FILES
            5 {

              references {
                table = pages
                fieldName = media
              }
              renderObj = IMAGE
              renderObj {
                file {
                  width = 470c
                  height = 470c
                  maxW = 470c
                  maxH = 470c
                  import.data = file:current:publicUrl
                }
                #altText.data = file:current:title
                altText.field = title
                titleText.field = title

                layoutKey = default
                layout {
                  default {
                    element = <img src="###SRC###"  ###PARAMS### ###ALTPARAMS### ###BORDER### ###SELFCLOSINGTAGSLASH###>
                    source =
                  }
                  srcset {
                    element = <img src="###SRC###" srcset="###SOURCECOLLECTION###" ###PARAMS### ###ALTPARAMS### ###SELFCLOSINGTAGSLASH###>
                    source = |*|###SRC### ###SRCSETCANDIDATE###,|*|###SRC### ###SRCSETCANDIDATE###
                  }
                }

                sourceCollection {
                  small {
                    width = 200
                    srcsetCandidate = 600w
                    mediaQuery = (max-device-width: 600px)
                    dataKey = small
                  }
                  smallRetina {
                    if.directReturn = 1
                    width = 200
                    pixelDensity = 2
                    srcsetCandidate = 600w 2x
                    mediaQuery = (max-device-width: 600px) AND (min-resolution: 192dpi)
                    dataKey = smallRetina
                  }
                }
              }

            }

references {
table = pages
fieldName = media
}

this code is in 6.2 buggy!!
data = levelmedia:-1, slide

here a new solution - T3 6.2 and slide:
[[http://blog.ingeniumdesign.de/2014/03/30/typo3-6-2-probleme-mit-ressourcen-media-auslesen/]]