The results of evaluation of a view's filter is a set of features, by default this set is ordered by the name of the features. For each view you can define the view ordering by specifying an order criteria an an order direction.
An order criteria defines what data is used for ordering. See table 1 for a description of all supported order criteria. The order direction can be ascending (default) or descending.
Ordering criteria |
Description |
Name |
Alphabetical ordering by feature name. This is the default ordering (with ascending direction) that is applied if the user does not specify any custom order. |
Latest change |
Order is based on the time stamp of the latest change of the feature. The latest change is calculated as the latest change to feature data or observation data of any of its observations. |
Creation date |
Order is based on the timestamp of creation of the feature. |
Feature type |
Order is based on the name of the feature type, and then by the name of the feature. Order direction is applied to the feature type name, the feature names are always ordered ascending. |
Axis position |
This criteria is only useful for views containing features using an Axis reference system for defining its spatial location. Features will be sorted by offset 1 of the feature LSO. |
Table 1: Order criteria supported by views.
