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2022.1 Collection "Sort By Date" has no descending chronological order

wesleygrey
7 - Meteor

Basically the topic. I just upgraded from 2021.3 to 2022.1 and observed this pretty inconvenient issue. It looks like that there's 3 possible views: 

 

1. Default: Chronological ascending.

2. Treating the date as a string then sorting ascending alphabetically: meaning "April", "August", "December", "February", "January", "July", etc. And day of month too, so: 1, 10....19, 2, 20, etc.

3. Same as #2, but descending order.

 

Sorting by date should be done chronologically, not by how to spell the month, so views #2 and #3 add no value to me. It looks like it's a repeat of this issue, but now that the months are spelled out in this version, the column wants to be a string again: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Server-Ideas/Alteryx-Gallery-Collection-Workflow-Upload-Dat...

 

DateSort.PNG

 

Hoping I can get the collection dates to sort in descending order, so my users can more easily see the latest created collection first, which has been pretty common usage in prior versions. Is there any way to fix or patch this, please?

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bkaehny
6 - Meteoroid

We have also experienced this issue and would like it resovled.