idea Sort content by item type in ArcGIS Online Ideas

Sort content by item type

Brian_McLeer — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:28:30 GMT

Add option in content tables to sort content by item type.

Re: Sort content by item type

Neal_t_k — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:37:05 GMT

Not 100% the same but there are the filters

Re: Sort content by item type

NairiSevajian — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:44:13 GMT

Hi @Brian_McLeer, if related, is there anything missing from the current filtering options that @Neal_t_k shared? What's your use case to sort by item type on the top ribbon? Are you using any workarounds right now to get close to a desired outcome? Thanks for any additional insight you can provide.

Re: Sort content by item type

Brian_McLeer — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:00:11 GMT

Hello @NairiSevajian, there is nothing missing from the current filtering options that @Neal_t_k provided. I wouldn't call it a use case, but as a user of other tables (say attribute tables in ArcGIS Pro or Enterprise/AGOL Webmaps), I would expect to be able to sort on any field present in a table as that seems like a standard table behavior. This idea could be expanded to other fields as well in the content table view. A use could would be where you want all of your content in a folder to show, but the filter would hide anything not within your filter.

Re: Sort content by item type

PeterKnoop — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:51:31 GMT

@NairiSevajian a use-case that comes to mind for me is when a user is viewing content in a folder for a project, and they want to remind themselves of its structure and contents, or understand the structure and contents that were someone else's choice. Viewing all of the content at once -- the whole picture -- organized by type, can make it easier to see an inferred structure, with the Experiences, Instant Apps, Web Maps, Hosted Feature Layers, etc. that make up the project sorted next to each other.

Yes, filtering could be used to do something similar, however, they key for this use case is being able to see all of the content at once. Filtering only allows you to view a single item type at a time.

Filtering is great when you have a use case with a singular need to view objects from one category, and when reducing a view of many objects to something manageable. Sorting, however, is a better fit when one needs to view a reasonably-sized collection of objects in its entirety, organized by categories.

Re: Sort content by item type

PatIampietro — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:16:35 GMT

+1 to @PeterKnoop's comment; filtering =! sorting. Each has its applications. Why not allow both?

Re: Sort content by item type

edward33 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:00:08 GMT

I wish this functionality was there constantly, espically when you have a folder with a lot in it