Changing the default sort on Admin UI page

[alexpetralia]

Hello, thank you for all your work here! Setup was very simple thanks to your docs.

I just had one quick question: in the Admin UI page, is it possible to set a default sort field?

I see in the Decamp CMS config that we can specify fields which are sortable, but not necessarily one for which to be the default sort (e.g. last_modified DESC).

[kyoshino]

Hiya! Actually, Static CMS, a now-discontinued Netlify CMS fork, has altered the sortable_fields option to include the default sort field and direction. I’m thinking about adding compatibility for it. Will work on it shortly.

• Netlify/Decap CMS: https://decapcms.org/docs/configuration-options/#sortable_fields
• Static CMS: https://staticjscms.netlify.app/docs/collection-overview#sortable-fields

This is the relevant Netlify/Decap CMS issue:

• sortableFields should have default sorting options decaporg/decap-cms#3715

[kyoshino]

The extended sortable_fields option is shipped with v0.54.0.

[alexpetralia]

Amazing, thank you so much!! This is awesome.

[alexpetralia]

Hi @kyoshino I attempted to apply this code change to my config.yml but don't seem to be getting the intended results.

Here is the relevant section of my admin/config.yml:

collections:
  - name: 'Posts'
    label: 'Posts'
    label_singular: 'Post'
    folder: '_posts/'
    create: true
    slug: '{{year}}-{{month}}-{{day}}-{{slug}}'
    summary: '{{date}} - {{title}} [{{tags}}]'
    editor:
      preview: true
    display_fields: [title, date]
    sortable_fields: 
      fields: [title, date]
      default:
        field: date
        direction: descending

I can see that in my _posts frontmatter I use the field date. However, when I open up the Admin page (http://localhost:4000/admin/index.html#/collections/Posts), the posts are still not sorting by date: descending. I need to click "Publish Date, new to old" in order to correct it.

I can see I am on the newest release: https://unpkg.com/@sveltia/cms@0.55.0/dist/sveltia-cms.js. I also tried using published_date (as well as title even) instead of date but that did not work either.

Do you see anything at first glance I'm doing incorrectly here?

Thanks,
Alex

[kyoshino]

Sorry I was offline. Will check this again tomorrow.

[josineto]

I have the same problem, but noticed one more detail: the bug (if it is a bug) only affects the first collection. I have four collections, and have configured them with default sorting. The first collection doesn't get any default sorting, but the other three are working. @kyoshino

[kyoshino]

The remaining issue fixed with v0.56.0.

[alexpetralia]

It is working for me now, thanks again!