# Sort columns - GlideTable **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [May 2, 2021, 5:16am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sort-columns-glidetable/26290 "2021-05-02T05:16:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 3:22pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sort-columns-glidetable/26290/6 "2021-06-08T15:22:53Z")
I’ll share a case I’ve ran into. My particular issue was fixed, so it’s not really an issue for me at the moment, but if you’re building dynamic html tables or quickchart urls, then it is nice to be able to sort since that is logic that is handled in the data, rather than the interface. I explain an old bug that I found a while back and was fixed, but does present a case for sorting of some sort within the table, or at least through relations. > [@Relations pull data in random order instead of sheet order](https://community.glideapps.com/t/relations-pull-data-in-random-order-instead-of-sheet-order/19758): > > So I ran into something odd. I’m building an app that is using [quickchart.io](http://quickchart.io) . To build the chart I have a relation to link to the data, and then I’m using a Joined List column to get a comma delimited list to build the url for the chart image in a template column. Everything works well as far as building the chart, but one thing I noticed is that the relation pulls data in what appears to be a random order. Since we cannot specify an order on a relation, I would have expected it to at least… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sort-columns-glidetable/26290)._