ContactEngineering / topobank

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Resorting data order after initial upload #1078

Open kathrynshaffer opened 6 months ago

kathrynshaffer commented 6 months ago

I could see a way to order the measurements uploaded after the initial upload being useful for my research tracking surface topography over time. For example, I uploaded in the order 3,1,2 and I want to reorder them in 1,2,3 so 1 plots the darkest and 3 plots the lightest when running calculations later. At the moment, my only solution is to be very careful uploading the first time, and not uploading in batches

pastewka commented 6 months ago

This is in an interesting suggestion. We haven't really thought about this in a structured manner.

Right now, the topographies in the upload view are sorted by name, i.e. they will reorder when you load the page.

The ones in the results plots probably show by upload order.

It would be easy to add some form of sort index, i.e. give the user control over the sort order. I can see why this would be useful. I'll but this on our to do list.