# Color as sort option

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/color-as-sort-option/5008>\
**Category:** Ideas & Features\
**Created:** [August 24, 2023, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/color-as-sort-option/5008 "2023-08-24T14:47:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![tycecycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@tycecycle](https://community.fibery.io/u/tycecycle)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/color-as-sort-option/5008/1 "2023-08-24T14:47:21Z")

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Would be neat if in table view one could use color as a sort option.

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**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 2:58pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/color-as-sort-option/5008/2 "2023-08-24T14:58:55Z")

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What do you mean with sorting by colour?  
At the moment, color-coding in a table view allows you to apply coloring based on rules, so however you choose to define these rules, they could be the same rules used for the sorting options as well.

Or did I misunderstand?

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**Author:** ![tycecycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@tycecycle](https://community.fibery.io/u/tycecycle)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 3:01pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/color-as-sort-option/5008/3 "2023-08-24T15:01:06Z")

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I think we’re on the same page, it just would be nice to sort by the color rules once they’re written and assigned instead of re-writing the rules for the purpose of sorting, especially for complex color groupings.

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**Author:** ![Matt\_Blais](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/matt_blais/32/1464_2.png) [@Matt\_Blais](https://community.fibery.io/u/Matt_Blais)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 3:49pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/color-as-sort-option/5008/4 "2023-08-24T15:49:07Z")

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A nice idea! 💖

I suppose the order in which the coloring Rules are defined could define their “priority”, and for each row, the priority of the **first** coloring rule that currently applies would be its “color sorting priority value”.

You could clumsily duplicate this functionality right now by creating a formula field to encode this same info, and sort by that field.