Moving regions on a page not just items

Question

Apparently you can arrange items/portlets within a region but cannot re-arrange regions within a page.
Given three regions: a,b,c is there any way to move region to the right of region [c]?
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[b] [c]
Seems like only option is to split region [c] into [c] [d] then delete region [b] moving all its items to region [d] and manually copying all region properties of [b] onto [d]. If you have 3 regions on the right to move to the left then this becomes very time consuming and error prone if there are any custom forms or URLs within the portal that are referring to those region ids [e.g. hardcoded page/region ids].
Editing views: Graphic, Layout, List do have options to move/arrange items and split regions NOT moving a region.
When you end-up with multiple regions, some with tabs, it's not apparent how to add/move a region without re-creating the whole page.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
--jason                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Answer 1

Hi Jason
No real way to do this and save the region settings (maybe someone can prove me wrong). As you pointed out, you will need to create at least one new region, move the content into this region and update the region level settings. You should definitely avoid using hard coded URLs and instead use direct access URLs for linking to portal content.