Ability to allow multiple sort capability to tables

Good morning,

I frequently use the table view to view tasks. I would like to have the ability to sort using multiple fields. For example, I frequently sort by due date. I would then like to be able to include a secondary order of "by priority" instead of alphanumeric.

This would help view tasks by day by priority.

Thank you,

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Elizaveta Bogdanova

Hi Bob, thanks for this suggestion 🙂

As it reached 60 upvotes, I've added a Product Status here. For now, it is "Investigating", I'll get back here to you when there's an update.

Al Sape

Yes, tables a great way to view tasks/projects, the more customizability, and filtering, the better!

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Quick update: the research continues, hopefully I'll be able to provide more details in Q1 2020.

Thanks for the feedback! 🙂

Permanently deleted user

Hey everyone, just going to jump in for Lisa here.

The team continues to research this suggestion. I'll be sure to let you know as soon as I get an update!

Dirk Schoellner

Any progress here? It was requested a year ago, and it had been implemented correctly in the "Old Table", so sadly we've been limping with no ability to sort correctly once that was removed.

Permanently deleted user

Hi @Dirk Schoellner, thank you for the feedback. I don't have an update for you at the moment, but I'll be updating this thread as soon as I have one 😊

Dirk Schoellner

Update? It reached 60 votes a year ago, but seems to have died. The old table supported the feature quite nicely, and it's been quite tedious since the feature was removed.

Elaine McDonagh

Hey @Dirk Schoellner, thanks for checking in!

I've requested an update on this one, I'll be back in touch when we've an update here 👍

Elaine McDonagh

Hi folks,

I wanted to share an update here to let you know that this suggestion's status has been updated to 'Not Planned'.

I know this won't be the news you were hoping for, but the research into this has shown that there are other priorities that must be addressed before this can be considered. As such, we've changed the status here to 'Not Planned'.

There is potential for this suggestion to be implemented further down the line, so we will be sure to keep you posted here on any changes.

Thank you for your support of this suggestion. If there's anything else we can help with here, please do let us know.

Dirk Schoellner

Thank you for following up on it and the update. However, that is really disappointing news, as wrike correctly had this implemented back with the old table, so it's a shame that it wasn't correctly retained. It is frustrating that in order to sort by multiple priorities we need to use reports, but can't edit a task directly from report view - so every single task needs to be opened to change a priority rating. It's just really inefficient, and it was working so nicely two years ago. Since every major program that uses a table list (think spreadsheets) provides the ability to do multiple-column sorting, it seems like it shouldn't be hard to re-implement, and hopefully wrike will revisit in the future.

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Thank you for getting back @Dirk Schoellner!

We're sorry to hear you're disappointed. Please rest assured that your feedback has been passed to the Product team, and, as Elaine mentioned above, we'll let you know if there are any updates here in the future.

Bas Rijks

Any update on this topic @Elizaveta Bogdanova?

Chris DeFelice

Another must-have feature that was requested over 5 years ago. Please please please we need more basic features like this and less flashy AI stuff.

Anna Schild

I agree this feature would be exceptionally helpful. We are often wanting to custom sort by multiple columns like we can in Excel.

Basudha Sakshyarika

Hey everyone!

Thanks for reaching out! The status of this request remains Not planned at the moment, and we don't have any new updates to share. However, we'll keep you informed if anything changes. 🤝

Dirk Schoellner

Boo. Would like to see more dedicated development work on adding basic efficiency improvements to wrike, rather than flashy AI improvements. For those of us using wrike every day, just some more basic improvements would be greatly appreciated.

Basudha Sakshyarika

Hey Dirk 🙋🏻‍♀️

I completely understand! However, the team is making progress on a range of interesting and useful updates. You can stay updated by checking out our 'Weekly Product Release Notes' and 'What's New in Wrike' posts here.

Although the ability to support multiple sort functions for tables might not be in the immediate plan, there is potential for this suggestion to be considered in the future. Thank you. 😊

Constant Biblocque

Hi,

I upvote this one.

I share also for me a complementary idea : sorting by item type => I would like to be able sort my project by priority but sort my tasks (which are in my projects of course) by predecessors

Basudha Sakshyarika

Thanks for the upvote and the idea, @Constant Biblocque! As always, forwarding your feedback to our product team! 😊

Sergey Lyakh

Here is a similar request for multi-sort in a dashboard widget. Please vote.
/hc/en-us/community/posts/360048424894-Sort-Dashboard-widgets-by-more-than-one-criteria