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Option for alphabetical sorting in component lists & dropdowns

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Level 4

9/1/22

Long component dropdowns are quite useful in my projects, but are painstaking to create, because the components appear in the component list in the left rail in order of hit prevalence (which is also useful) but I'd like to make the dropdowns more user friendly by listing all the options in alphabetical order.

 

Doing this is quite time consuming because the elements in a dropdown appear only the order in which they are selected and dragged from the left rail onto the dropdown. So to create an alphabetical dropdown from a long list of components requires a painstaking search of all components and individual selection, using an external reference list already sorted in alphabetical order, marking them off as you go to avoid duplication.

 

This could all be avoided if the left rail component list/selector had a toggle to sort alphabetically or by hits. For extra credit bonus points, add this same capability to the dropdown segment itself.

 

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Community Advisor

9/1/22

Agreed! Even if there was options: Sort in Drag Order (for those that want to control the order), Sort Alphabetical Asc, Sort Alphabetical Desc, etc

 

Then for ones you want a specific order (like most to least used option), you could still control the display.