[Feature]: Alphabetize by subject ID / filename in Panel file listing

[rly]

What would you like to see added to NWB Widgets?

When I want to explore a specific file on DANDI, sometimes I will open up dandihub, launch the Panel, select the dandiset, and select the file. This is difficult because the file listing is not in any understandable order:

It would be nice to have the listed files be in order of subject ID and then file name, just like the dandi website.

I could write code / adapt existing streaming python code to open the file, but sometimes it is just nicer to use a UI.

(And as discussed with @bendichter earlier, this issue would also be solved by being able to select a file in the dandi files explorer and clicking a button "Open in NWB Widgets", but that is a larger issue)

Do you have any interest in helping implement the feature?

No.

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[bendichter]

@luiztauffer is this perhaps an artifact of parallelization? Could you apply a sort in here?

[luiztauffer]

@bendichter you got that right, this should be simple to resolve, I'll make a commit for that

[luiztauffer]

oh no, actually we have two separate problems:

• out of order DANDI sets, due to parallelization
• difficult to read files list within a dandi set

I believe both are solved with a simple sorting. I'll also see if I can improve a bit the files list, perhaps something like:

subject_id - file_name
subject_id - file_name
subject_id - file_name
...