Topic "Sort priority in dashboard entries" a message from Magnus Pettersson

Hello Devolutions
I'm using version 8.0.23.0 using local data source in my test setup.

First let me tell you how much I and my colleagues love this Product and how great it is to get this absolutely awesome development pace of the Product.
However, I'm concerned that you might get blinded by this development speed and fail to prioritize the correction of basic architectural flaws and UI flaws that has been there pretty much from the start in the Product.

1. Sort priority in a session list is not reflected correctly in the dashboard entries. The dashboard entries seems to not care about the sort priority.
This is making it a very bad user experience, and I have to name the sessions using index numbers for the sorting to make sense. See enclosed Picture.


2. Also the help text of the Sort Priority in advanced settings says: &quotChange this value to a greater value to show the session before others&quot. That is not true in this version. A greater value shows the session after others... However in older versions this was right. But the advanced setting to use/not use this setting does not change this help text.

3. The &quotBy Design&quot that the Sort Priority only defines sorting within Groups or within Sessions I believe is not good enough. It is not consistent with the term sort priority. However, it can possibly be lived with....

All in all I think you need to &quotsort out&quot how to sort sessions in a consistent manner. The session list is after all one of the most fundamental data structures in this Product. You also need to come up with a sorting scheme that is consistent in both session list and in dashboard entries as well as other collections like exported lists etc. Drag and drop sorting or ribbon buttons for &quotMove Up&quot and &quotMove Down&quot I think should be implemented.

Please keep up your great work.

Yours Truly
Magnus Pettersson