Avoid group compulsory sorting

[fawadahmad]

What problem does this feature solve?

It looks like a sorting is applied to the groups. This is not the requirement every time. I found an option in the demo to be able to change the sort order in ascending or descending but no option to disable this sorting at all.

In my case, I need to group the data and display the groups in the same order in which groups were collected from the data.

[lzhoucs]

group level sort is mandatory by default, because it makes sense in most cases by making sure non-contiguous rows are put into the same groups. For example: given the following data:

group1, item1,
group3, item2,
group2, item3,
group1, item4,
group2, item5

After group sort, the table renders the following rows:

group1 row,
  item1 row,
  item4 row,
group 2 row,
  item 3 row,
  item 5 row,
...

Without group sort, item1 and item4 won't be put together. If this is not what you want, there's still ways to change. Simply specify a custom-sort prop which overrides the default sort function which sort by group first then sort by items within group second. Items within group sort can also be disabled by:

• add disable-initial-sort prop
• add sortable: false to each header entry in the headers prop

By doing all above, you can have a complete no sort table whose items order are entirely driven by the data coming in on both group and item level.