Default sort order

The default order for the Sort transform is “Descending”. Should we change it? It is hardly a massive issue, but we thought we would try out the poll feature on this forum.

  • Leave it as “Descending”
  • Change it to “Ascending”
  • Don’t care
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Most other software starts with ascending so I think it will be the best default

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While it is more or less 50:50 which I will choose, the default I typically encounter is ascending so there is less thought and bother in a starting state which is consistent with other applications and scripting languages.

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YES ABSOLUTELY, good catch !!!

Also, it would be nice if “case sensitive” was unchecked by default in Sort, and all the other transforms that use it. Catches me out all the time.

We will have a think about that. Also we want to be smarter about defaults, so it remembers options, such as case sensitivity, from the last time you added this transform and uses that as the default.

The results are fairly clear. We will change it to Ascending in the next release. We will also try to be smarter about defaults.