# Allow Users to Create Custom Sorting
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-users-to-create-custom-sorting/32361
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [September 26, 2021, 9:34pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-users-to-create-custom-sorting/32361 "2021-09-26T21:34:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@RyanThomas](https://community.glideapps.com/u/RyanThomas)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2021, 9:34pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-users-to-create-custom-sorting/32361/1 "2021-09-26T21:34:34Z")
I have so many items in my apps that need to be sorted in a variety of views. If there was a button to allow the users to enter a sorting mode, they could then drag and drop the items into the correct order. Perhaps this could also be done with just a long press on the items. Once the sorting mode was entered, Glide would make a column in the backend that would assign all items a sorting number. As the user dragged these items into the correct position glide would take care of reassigning these numbers to the specific items.
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### Author:  [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2021, 9:40pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-users-to-create-custom-sorting/32361/2 "2021-09-26T21:40:12Z")
I agree. To start, Glide should allow us to have multiple sort conditions for inline lists…eg. ”first sort by category, then sort by name ascending”
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2021, 3:26am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-users-to-create-custom-sorting/32361/3 "2021-09-27T03:26:36Z")
mmm, user customisable dashboards…
This is something I’ve been giving some thought lately. I think it is possible to create some level of customisation through the use of user preferences to control tab/component visibility and perhaps list sort order. But allowing users to arrange components on a screen would be very slick 👍
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### Author:  [@L.M](https://community.glideapps.com/u/L.M)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2021, 5:39am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-users-to-create-custom-sorting/32361/4 "2021-09-27T05:39:22Z")
Yes 🙂. The simple thing to click on arrows top down as in our mailbox columns whatever the platform (Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) to activate sorting from the selected column.
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### Author:  [@Ethan\_U](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Ethan_U)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2022, 12:57pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-users-to-create-custom-sorting/32361/5 "2022-05-14T12:57:45Z")
This is a really needed feature IMO. Airtable allows you to drag and sort.
example one:
Imagine the simplest task list and the user wants to sort in order of priority and work their way down the list. It’s easiest to sort this way. I use Todoist and completely bypass the need to use work arounds like having to add a flag or priority number to an item by just dragging.
example two:
grocery shopping, to drag and sort to a different grouping of items. Again Airtable allows this. The category would be Dairy, Meat, Baking etc. It’s fastest to just drag items into a different group in a list.
I love airtable for this feature but it’s so limited as an app builder if Glide had this it would be awesome.
Pretty please 🙂
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2022, 1:02pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-users-to-create-custom-sorting/32361/6 "2022-05-14T13:02:30Z")
There is a KanBan style list in Pages if you haven’t explored that yet.
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### Author:  [@RyanThomas](https://community.glideapps.com/u/RyanThomas)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2022, 10:12pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-users-to-create-custom-sorting/32361/7 "2022-05-19T22:12:29Z")
I saw that! Hoping that functionality gets carried over to more than just pages.
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### Author:  [@Randall\_Nichols](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Randall_Nichols)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2024, 8:55pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-users-to-create-custom-sorting/32361/8 "2024-02-05T20:55:04Z")
Need this too! The functionality is there for Kanban. Just need a way to apply it to a list component.