Ordering of dropdowns #28

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opened 2025-12-28 23:24:23 +01:00 by adam · 2 comments
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Originally created by @CocaCola2701 on GitHub (Mar 9, 2025).

Hey. Are the items in the dropdown menues ordered? For example, when adding a new expanse and choosing the category, the items in the category-dropdown seem to be ordered randomly. Would it be possible to introduce an ordering, like alphabetically?

An even greater change would be to have a setting like "category ordering": "alphabetically", "last usage", "creation", ... I think you know what I mean :D the same goes for entities and tags.

Thanks a lot and greetings!

Originally created by @CocaCola2701 on GitHub (Mar 9, 2025). Hey. Are the items in the dropdown menues ordered? For example, when adding a new expanse and choosing the category, the items in the category-dropdown seem to be ordered randomly. Would it be possible to introduce an ordering, like alphabetically? An even greater change would be to have a setting like "category ordering": "alphabetically", "last usage", "creation", ... I think you know what I mean :D the same goes for entities and tags. Thanks a lot and greetings!
adam closed this issue 2025-12-28 23:24:23 +01:00
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@eitchtee commented on GitHub (Mar 9, 2025):

Oops, they're not ordered, nice catch. They get displayed in whatever order the database returns them, which can be random.

I'm voting against the user setting as it's a lot of overhead for a small benefit, as you can type to search for any item in the dropdown, but this can get revised later.

@eitchtee commented on GitHub (Mar 9, 2025): Oops, they're not ordered, nice catch. They get displayed in whatever order the database returns them, which can be random. I'm voting against the user setting as it's a lot of overhead for a small benefit, as you can type to search for any item in the dropdown, but this can get revised later.
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@CocaCola2701 commented on GitHub (Mar 9, 2025):

The search functionality is great, didn't even realize you can do that! But an alphabetically sorted list would be more intuitive for me nevertheless.

@CocaCola2701 commented on GitHub (Mar 9, 2025): The search functionality is great, didn't even realize you can do that! But an alphabetically sorted list would be more intuitive for me nevertheless.
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Reference: starred/WYGIWYH#28