[SOLVED] Automatic sorting in views

[Katherine_Duh]

Great news! We’ve just enabled this feature for everyone. Check out Mikayla’s post below for more info.

[Aaron_Owen]

I thought I’d bump this thread to see if there’s any movement on persistent / live sorting. My use case is that I have an external view of a “deliverables” table that’s embedded on a webpage that is a subset of the table which is filtered on a column called “job number” a particular client. This embedded client view has a sort applied to it based on date created, so that new items show up at the top of the table.

The problem I have is that when new deliverables are added to the table, even though the view on the non-embedded side shows me that there is a sort applied to the view, it must be re-applied manually even if the page or view has been loaded fresh. This isn’t great. If I’ve loaded the view, and there is a sorting filter present, it would stand to reason that the current view has already been sorted by this criteria when in fact, the sort must be re-applied to the view in order to affect the embedded view. I would expect that if I’ve set up an external view with a filter and sort criteria, that the external view would apply the sort on page load.

[Matt_Sayward]

I have a similar situation with a list of cars in stock that are organised by make and model by default. Cars are added through a form so the actual grid view is rarely interacted with by someone with edit permissions, so I’m having to manually update the sort a few times a day. Not ideal. Hope it’s coming soon!

[Franklin_Tseng]

Totally agree to autosorting. This is also very important. Should have a choice of autosorting or manual sorting.

[Kelvin_Jewell]

+1. appreciate its on the dev road map, but can’t come quick enough for me! Even if “live-sorting” is some way off, a button to “re-apply sorts in all views” would be an interim solution rather than having to open each view individually to re-apply the sort.

[Matt_Sayward]

Bump

With the advent of Grouped Records, you could sort of have live sorting now. If you’d consider putting it in at the ‘Grid’ view level that would be awesome.

[Tuur]

Kim_Prisk:

As a minimum it would be useful if the sort occurred when you re-open the base then the view.

Or simply when refreshing / opening the view. Live sorting is not really what I’m after.

FWIW, I don’t think I would appreciate my records flying all over the place when someone else is working on the same table. :slightly_smiling_face:

[Kim_Prisk]

Ok a compromise, if only one user, then sort as the view is opened. Then on
the the other hand if someone has a sort attached to a view why not? It is
sorted anyway, and the auto sort just adds a few more records at the top.
Why would one night to see those?

[Tuur]

I’m with @Matt_Sayward on the original post. Forget fancy live sorting for now. :winking_face:

[Tuur]

Just found this: Persistent sorting of a view

That’s good enough for me. :slightly_smiling_face:

[Sam_Gates]

Sort and filter should both be toggle-able options. Sometimes I want the records to auto-sort and sometimes I don’t want the records to auto-filter.

Would be a great feature, looking forward to seeing it.

Not a big fan of the groups feature, though I might be missing it’s usefulness.