Changing the default order to display entities in the Entity Browser

You can change the default order to display entities in the Entity Browser in the Context Graph Visualization application.

Choose to sort in ascending or descending order by values in any column. Sort by text (A to Z or Z to A), numbers (smallest to largest or largest to smallest), and dates and times (oldest to newest and newest to oldest) in a column.

This procedure sorts entity data before it is loaded from the server. Ordering data on the server before loading it into the Entity Browser can be time-consuming for large models, so you may choose to avoid using a default sort to load entity data more quickly.

  1. Create and run a query.
    For more information, see Creating queries in Entity Browser.
  2. On the Options tab, click in the Order by box to open the list of possible sorts and click one of the following:
    ClickTo
    Property name Order by values in the corresponding column of the table.
    Entity label Order entities by entity labels displayed in the Entity column of the table. This is default behavior if you do not make any selection in this list.
    None Avoid sorting entities on the server. Select this option to load entity data more rapidly for larger models.
  3. Click the Run query button to display entities in the specified order.
    This the values for entities initially ordered as specified on the Options tab.
  4. Optional: You may click the order ascending or order descending on any column heading to sort entities in the table by property values in a column.