Many of the pages in Workplace display lists of items, such as the documents in a folder, or the results of a search. For example, the Browse page displays a list of objects in a folder in either magazine or detailed view (depending on your current settings). In detailed view, the list is displayed as rows and columns, with the items sorted in ascending order according to the first column in the list. You can click any column title to change the sort order of the list. The list can only be sorted on a single column. Names of column headings are configurable, so your column headings might look different.
A triangle after the column name indicates the column that the list is sorted by and the sort order. The upward triangle indicates ascending sort (A to Z and 0 to 9). The downward triangle indicates descending sort order (Z to A and 9 to 0).
The following example shows a Browse page with its default sort order. The objects are sorted in ascending order based on the Title column. "AdventureTime Campaign Briefing" is the first document in the list.
The following example shows the same Browse page with the objects sorted in descending order based on the Title column. "Outstanding Project Issues Q2" is the first document in the list.
The following example shows the same Browse page with the objects sorted in ascending order based on the Content Size column. "AdventureTime Campaign Briefing" is 3KB and the first document in the list.
To change the sort order of the list
To switch between ascending and descending sort
NOTE When you sort a long list of work items, such as in the Inbox view of the Tasks page, you might need to refresh the view after sorting. Your administrator sets a limit on the amount of work items that can be retrieved in one chunk. If you are paging through a long list of work items, you might cross the boundary of the retrieved data. If the new data to be retrieved contains items that should be sorted to a page you have already viewed, you must page back through the list to see items that you might have missed.
For example, your administrator might set a limit of 100 items to be retrieved at one time. If your Inbox has 105 items, then only the first 100 are retrieved and displayed until your paging through the list takes you to item 101. If item 101 would be sorted as item 1 when you are currently viewing page 5, then you will not see item 101 on page 5. You will need to page back to page 1 to see item 101.