Alpha-Numeric Sort Zones

[vectr0n]

Either by default or an option to have the zones page sorted by alpha-numeric. I am not even sure how it's sorted by default, everything is everywhere.

[thomas-pike]

There was a deliberate choice to the way that it is currently ordered, though it certainly might not be obvious (or indeed useful in all situations). It is ordered alphabetically by top-level domain, and then by domain, subdomain etc. The advantages of sorting in this way are:

• Clear distinction between domains belonging to different TLDs.
• Delegated subdomains get grouped next to the domains that they belong to.
• Reverse zones automatically get ordered by the IP prefix (read in a left-to-right direction).

For example, if you had example.com, foobar.com, example.org, subdomain1.example.com, subdomain2.example.com, subdomain1.example.org and sub.subdomain1.example.org, they would be sorted as:

               example.com
    subdomain1.example.com
    subdomain2.example.com
                foobar.com
               example.org
    subdomain1.example.org
sub.subdomain1.example.org

But I accept that there are disadvantages to sorting this way too:

• Sort order is not immediately obvious.
• Sometimes you want domains to be grouped together, even if their TLDs are different (eg. if you have example.com, example.org, example.tv, example.co.uk, example.net, etc. and then foobar.com, foobar.org...)

So it might make sense to have it possible to change the sort order, either on a per-user or per-installation setup.

[vectr0n]

Thanks for the reply and explanation. It would be nice to have am option in the way it's sorted by default if not to much work. I am not a dev by any means so I have no way of helping or do it myself and submitting a PR.

[jsoref]

@vectr0n: Your issue was a great contribution by itself.

FWIW, even if you don't speak PHP, you can make improvements like the one I just offered (it barely requires speaking HTML).

As for actually offering multiple sort orderings, I can't think of a great way to do it... Normally one uses a widget that looks like: ↕, but that's purely for reversing an alphabetical sort. It looks like the recommended approach would be Sort: [ {by ...} |v].

Most of the time, I don't think I've been terribly bothered by the current sort. -- If I need to group by project.example.{*} vs. documentation.example.{*}, I will generally just filter to project.example or documentation.example and be left with something that covers what I actually need to look at.