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:

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

Add a further sort order to the stream:

1. Name: PaymentMeans,CalculationDate
2. Sort by PaymentMeans (ascending), CalculationDate (ascending)

You will use this sort order in the next exercise.