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.
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.
@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.
