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Metadata categories are not sorted #88

Open ElDeveloper opened 7 years ago

ElDeveloper commented 7 years ago

Improvement Description It would be helpful if the metadata categories in the dropdown menu were sorted. This is a screenshot of the dropdown menu 👀 :

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screen shot 2017-09-01 at 11 03 37 am
thermokarst commented 7 years ago

Thanks @ElDeveloper! The categories are actually sorted, by the order of the columns in the metadata file:

screen shot 2017-09-01 at 5 10 10 pm

This felt pretty natural to us, but maybe you have some thoughts about why the categories should be sorted in a different order? Let us know! Thanks! 🎃

ElDeveloper commented 7 years ago

I see, I noticed this problem as I saw a couple users reading through the menu trying to find a category. This is easy to workaround by typing the name of the category, however not all users know that.

As a side note, in emperor categories are sorted alphabetically