GridFieldOrderableRows does not support secondary or default sort fields.

[davejtoews]

I frequently have orderable objects which should have a default sort order, but option for manually overriding. So the object will have something like:

private static $default_sort = 'Sort ASC, Title ASC`;

With the GridFieldOrderableRows component added, only the sort column managed by the component itself is considered in the CMS display of the items. If no values have been set in the sort field they display unsorted in whichever order SQL decides to show them. (Mostly just ordered by id).

The component offers a getter and setter for $extraSortFields but these are applied as higher priority sorts than the managed sort column. What I'm looking for is setting sorts with a lower priority than the managed sort column, preferably making use of the defaults set elsewhere.

PRs

• 🐛 (cms interface) applies default sort order to CMS ordering #325
• MNT Add unit tests for default sort #329
• FIX Respect default sort array in GridFieldOrderableRows #349

[GuySartorelli]

Closing as a duplicate of #357 (we took the latter through backlog refinement today)