Sort

Sort a list from smallest to largest.

Input Fields

  • list - The list you want to sort.

  • path - If list is a list of objects, path is the name of the key to sort the objects by or a path if the object contains other objects (for example, "customer.lastname"); otherwise, you can leave path blank.

Output Fields

  • sorted list - The list sorted from smallest to largest.

NOTE: Numbers will sort differently if you are using a list of text versus a list of numbers (or if the chosen key of the object is text versus a number). In numeric sort order 9 comes before 80, but in alphabetical sort order "80" comes before "9". If you need to convert from string to number, use Sort Custom instead where you call a helper flow to specify the value to use for each item.

To sort by more than one key, use multiple Sort cards in a row, ending with the Sort using the primary key. To sort from largest to smallest, use Reverse after Sort. To do more complicated sorts, use the Sort Custom function which calls a helper flow to determine the value to sort each item by.

Examples

If list is [9,80,20,1] then sorted list is [1,9,20,80] - number order for numbers

If list is ["9","80","20","1"] then sorted list is ["1","20","80","9"] - alphabetic order for lists of text

If list is [{"name":"Nicole","value":10}, {"name":"Sarah","value":20}, {"name":"Emily","value":30}] and path is "name" then sorted list is: [{"name":"Emily","value":30}, {"name":"Nicole","value":10}, {"name":"Sarah","value":20}] - objects alphabetically sorted using name.

Related topics

Lists

Functions

Workflow elements