21 Setting default sort orders

By the end of this section you will be able to:

• Set a default sort order on a stream view

Find the Stream for this exercise:

• Open the model Dashboards and Forms 01-08: Views, filters and dashboards
• Open the stream configuration form for Overall Debt Levels, and go to the Sort Orders section
• Add a sort order:
  • Press 
  • Name: PaymentMeans,DebtLevel
  • Press Apply
  • Press Show Stream Attributes
  • Add PaymentMeans to the list of sorting attributes
  • Leave this as ascending
  • Add DebtLevel to the list of sorting attributes
  • Update this to descending - click on the triangle, it will reverse direction
  • Press  to save the sort order
• Open the dashboard Overall Debt Levels
• Open the configuration form for the view Overall Debt Levels
• Set this as the Default Sort Order
• Press  to save your changes
• Go into App mode to see the results

Add a further sort order to the stream:

• Name: PaymentMeans,CalculationDate
• Sort by PaymentMeans (ascending), CalculationDate (ascending)

You will use this sort order in the next exercise.