# Is it possible to change the sorting method of a list based on user actions?

**URL:** <https://forum.adalo.com/t/is-it-possible-to-change-the-sorting-method-of-a-list-based-on-user-actions/967>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Created:** [April 25, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/is-it-possible-to-change-the-sorting-method-of-a-list-based-on-user-actions/967 "2020-04-25T21:09:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@henry](https://forum.adalo.com/u/henry)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/is-it-possible-to-change-the-sorting-method-of-a-list-based-on-user-actions/967/1 "2020-04-25T21:09:32Z")

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ie. a user can choose to have items sorted by oldest to newest or newest to oldest

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**Author:** ![bakerofideas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.adalo.com/bakerofideas/32/209_2.png) [@bakerofideas](https://forum.adalo.com/u/bakerofideas)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 10:14pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/is-it-possible-to-change-the-sorting-method-of-a-list-based-on-user-actions/967/2 "2020-04-25T22:14:12Z")

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Not off the top of my head, but you can add a text component and a new screen to do that.

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**Author:** ![Ben](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.adalo.com/ben/32/9_2.png) [@Ben](https://forum.adalo.com/u/Ben)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/is-it-possible-to-change-the-sorting-method-of-a-list-based-on-user-actions/967/3 "2020-04-26T18:47:27Z")

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Another way to do this is to actually have multiple lists on your screen – one for each sort method/direction. Then you could have a dropdown where the users pick their sort and the Visibility of the lists is based on the value of that dropdown.

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**Author:** ![henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@henry](https://forum.adalo.com/u/henry)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/is-it-possible-to-change-the-sorting-method-of-a-list-based-on-user-actions/967/4 "2020-04-27T17:40:24Z")

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you can change visibility via user input?

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**Author:** ![bakerofideas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.adalo.com/bakerofideas/32/209_2.png) [@bakerofideas](https://forum.adalo.com/u/bakerofideas)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/is-it-possible-to-change-the-sorting-method-of-a-list-based-on-user-actions/967/5 "2020-04-27T19:52:11Z")

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I haven’t seen an easy option to change visibility via user input, but thinking out loud here, it’s something you should be able to do with filtering and updating a show/hide field in your database.