Sort on one or more columns

Sorting the contents of a table helps you visualize your content and find the data you want. You can sort on one or more columns.

Note   

• The availability of multi-column sorting and the maximum number of columns on which you can simultaneously sort depends on your organization's environment settings in Collibra Console.
• Multi-column sorting is not available in tile display mode; however, you can sort on more than one column while in table display mode and then switch to tile display mode. The sort results will be accurately applied to the tiles. See Sort a set of tiles.

Steps

To sort the contents of a table based on one or more columns, follow these steps:

1. Open a view in table display mode.
2. Click the column name of the column on which you want to sort.
   appears next to the column name and the table is sorted in ascending order.
   To sort in descending order, click the column name again.
3. To sort the data on a second column, click the desired column name.
   appears next to the column name and the table is sorted in ascending order.
   To sort in descending order, click the column name again.
   To remove sorting, click the column name a third time.
4. To sort the data on a third column, click the desired column name.
   appears next to the column name.
   The contents of the table are first sorted according to the first column you've selected. Within that sort result, the contents are further sorted according to the second column you've selected.
   To sort by additional columns, continue as above.

Tip   If you start sorting on a second column, the sorting icon of the first column changes into .