Sorting with Filters in Smartsheet

SSFeatures enables the "Sort" button in Smartsheet, even when filters are active, which significantly improves your user experience.

The Problem with Sorting and Filters in Smartsheet

By default, Smartsheet disables the "Sort" button whenever filters are applied.

This forces users to:

1. Disable the filter.
2. Perform the sort.
3. Re-enable the filter.

Alternatively, users are required to create a separate Smartsheet report to combine sorting and filtering. Both options disrupt your workflow and hurt your team's productivity!

For over five years, users have been requesting a solution to allow sorting while filters are active. This is a source of frustration for many!

• Feature Request: Add 'sort order' to Filter Views (~200 votes) (~30 comments)
• Question: How to sort filtered data? (~30 comments)
• Feedback: "...the lack of flexibility makes Smartsheet's filtering and sorting functionality lag behind the competition" - Marc Shecter
• Feedback: "Love this idea.... This would be super helpful" - DebRichardson
• Feedback: "This is a big missing feature. Trying to convert Excel users to Smartsheet, then explaining you can't sort a filtered list always feels like a backward step and impacts adoption for us." - GrantKiwi
• Feedback: "To have the ability to build filters with the sort function also would be a tremendous help. This is what I miss the most from Excel." - Phillip Stringer
• Feedback: "Currently, you have to turn off all filters to sort and then get back to where you were, which is a bit cumbersome and time consuming." - drichart
• Feedback: "Please add the ability to sort after filtering. It is really a pain to have to remove filtering, sort, and then filter again." - Jennifer Greenough

The Solution with SSFeatures

SSFeatures enables the Sort button even when filters are applied, making filters and sorting more efficient and convenient.

Clicking the Sort button opens a custom sort popup that remembers your settings. This popup also lets you enable the automatic sorting feature.

With the Save, Load, and Delete buttons, you can quickly save your sort settings and reload them when needed, saving time and improving your productivity.

Demo Video

Frequently Asked Questions

• Does this work with Dynamic View?

  • No, this does not work with Dynamic View.

• Can I share my sort settings with my teammates?

  • No, due to privacy and security concerns, we do not upload any of your settings, column names, or any data to our servers. SSFeatures saves all of your settings locally within your browser storage, which means that we do not have access to any of your data, and cannot share your settings with your teammates.

• Can you tell me more about the security and privacy of this feature?

  • Absolutely. SSFeatures operates entirely within your browser, directly calling Smartsheet's application code. No data from your rows, columns, or cells is ever sent to our servers, ensuring your data remains private and secure.