SORTING OF ITEMS

Hi!

This is just the suggestion.

When we load a table view, records appear in their regular order, which is normally ascending by auto-incremented primary key, so - this is ascending order by PK.

If I click on the "ID" column title bar once - I get records AGAIN sorted in the ascending order, so I get the very same view, but I have to wait for it, what is troublesome in case of larger tables.

Only if I click the "ID" column title bar second time, I get the records in the reversed order (sorted descending).

My proposition is:

To make descending sort order being presented immediately after the first click and ascending order only after second click.

That would make more sense in the vast majority of cases, imho.

Did you see the "Sorting" button/dialog at the top right?

Unfortunately, your suggestion results in a poor UX experience:

It takes at least 4 clicks to use this "sorting widget":

1. open widget,
2. add column(s),
3. select descending sort,
4. confirm

It would be much more convenient if the first sort order after clicking a column title bar was descending rather than ascending order.

Rgs, Ziggi

Yes, that might be true. I just felt I should not leave that unmentioned.

Maybe I should turn the logic behind the header clicks, so that descending is done through the first click, and ascending by the second one.

@ansgar - I appreciate your reflective attitude. I believe my suggestion is well-grounded.

Rgs, Ziggi

Please try the latest build, it has the sorting by click reversed now.

@ansgar, this is a very nice change. For numeric colomns it is exactly what i expected. At 90% cases we want to see the greatest value first (DESC) But i thing that is hardly the case for alphatext columns. I think that it is hardly the case when sorting "last name" columns that i want to see them in descending order. Would it be possible to distinguish the 2 types? Thank you for your escellent work. Roger

I think that reversed sorting is anyway uncommon, so I tend to revert my modification. Distinguishing between different data types is not intuitive, I already hear other users shouting.

Oh i understand and agree with you, it's not intuitive. But i still love this DESC on numeric field. Just some other suggestions:

• Maybe a double click could sort by DESC.
• Or maybe it could be setup in preferences, maintaining the numeric and text column separated. Thanks again Roger

Next build starts with descending sorting on Shift + click. A normal click still starts with ascending order.

This is a very good idea! Well done !