I’ve noticed that it’s not possible to sort a category alphabetically by default topic titles. I’m sure I’ll be told that I can just use the filters to make the adjustment, but that raises two major issues:
It requires too many steps, which isn’t within everyone’s reach.
You lose the usual tile layout.
Would it be possible to have a per-category parameter to define an alphabetical sort of topics by default? I’m not sure if this is planned in the roadmap.
I’ll repeat myself: this is just feedback from real-world experience, but I think it’s a shame to miss out on this option, which is standard on Discourse.
Actually, in my categories, I have pages for board games, and I wanted the topics within these specific categories to be sorted alphabetically. I tried to do a little bit of development myself, but I just can’t figure it out.
This is useful for courses and such where the topics are titled “Lesson 1”, “Lesson 2” etc.
Also, one of my biggest gripes with the doc-categories plugin is that it still exposes a topic list, especially on mobile. Being able to sort alphabetically would at least mitigate some of that.
I can confirm that the filter is not useful for those of us who want to keep the default view as is, especially if it is applied to categories that function as Category Docs (Glossary, CMS).
It is a starting point, but it does not cover the simple need — perhaps not from a technical standpoint but certainly from our users perspective — to display topics organized alphabetically.
I think the filter covers other needs in a comprehensive way.
I thought we were keeping the same tile visuals
