Make "Date Modified - Descending" the default sort order for assets

[angrybrad]

Created by: Christian ([email protected]) on 2015/03/09 00:49:13 +0000
Votes at time of UserVoice import: 2

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[angrybrad]

Posted by Jeroen Kenters ([email protected]) on 2015/03/20 14:15:17 +0000

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This might be great for Assets Fields in case you have many assets inside a folder and the uploaded asset is not selected after uploading. By sorting them by date desc the uploaded Asset does get selected.

Related to: http://craftcms.stackexchange.com/questions/9704/when-uploading-an-asset-the-asset-is-not-selected-after-upload

[ghost]

This definitely addresses one specific issue of finding and selecting your most recently uploaded assets but I would suggest this along with a setting to change the default sorting in settings. This would target the main concern I'm sure most people working in craft have but also give a tool that could solve any developers issue with asset/field sorting.

[samjoneill]

@angrybrad, @brandonkelly This is something we've had clients request. Is there any chance of it being implemented?

[brandonkelly]

Added for the next release! Going with Date Uploaded rather than Date Modified, though. (Worth mentioning that indexes will always remember your last-selected setting though, so if you don’t like the default, all you have to do is change it, and it will stay that way each time you reload.)

[jamiewade]

@brandonkelly @angrybrad Can we also introduce this for Entries / Users?

For users who haven't sorted items yet, and therefore won't have a default set yet, I would assume the vast majority would want to see the most recent items first. However when you click the Date Modified / Last Login column, the first sorting order is oldest first. As a default I'm not sure how useful that is?

[brandonkelly]

@jamiewade Good point. Entries’ Channel section sources were already sorted by Post Date - Descending by default, but only until a new sort option was selected. Going forward, all built-in element types’ date sort options will sort themselves in descending order by default when manually clicked on.

[brandonkelly]

Craft 3.5.9 is out now with this change.