V3: Sort in Column 3

How to use the sort options in Column 3.

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Written by Anne Heath
Updated over a week ago

In some pages at the top of Column 3, there is a Sort icon.

See the images below.

People View

Groups View

Click on this icon to reveal the following dropdown menu:

Click on this icon to reveal the following dropdown menu:

While some of the options are different, the general logic principles are the same. So, let's go through them.

GROUP 1 (gold boxes in images above)

Notice that in each of these three options, the arrow is pointing downwards. This means that choosing this option will display items from A to Z according to their first names, last names or group names.

GROUP 2 (turquoise boxes in images above)

Notice that in each of these three options, the arrow is pointing upwards. This means that choosing this option will display items from Z to A according to their first names, last names or group names.

GROUP 3 (brown boxes in images above)

Choosing Newest will display the items from newest to oldest.

Choosing Oldest will display the items from oldest to newest.

Here's the catch though...

The alphabetizing will be "messed up". That's because we are sorting according to a date and not a name. (Yes, we could do both together...perhaps in the future).

Here's an example using the People View and choosing Newest:

Here is another example from the Tags page:

Remember

You can choose default Sort options in your App Settings.

NOTE: App Settings are specific to the logged in user and not per account (church, ministry, etc.).

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