PowerApps Template Gallery List Default Sort Order

mctriv been a couple years since this post. I have learned a few ways of doing this one. The best way to learn this is actually using one of the OTB templates in PowerApps as they have the sort order functionality already built, you just set the default to ascending or descending and then hide the button to change it.

Below are the Gallery formulas you could use;

SortByColumns(Filter('ICT Service Requests', StartsWith(Title, TextSearchBox1.Text)), "Created", If(SortDescending1, Descending, Ascending))

SortByColumns(Filter('ICT Service Requests', StartsWith(Title, TextSearchBox1.Text)), "Created", If(SortDescending1, Ascending, Descending))

The above is OTB for the Items section of the Gallery which usually is connected to a button for sort however if you just change the SortByColumns to be the other way around it works great. The default cannot be changed without using the SortByColumns option.

You will still need the button for the sort order as far as i have been able to work out which needs the onselect to be something like this.

UpdateContext({SortDescending1: !SortDescending1})

But then just set the button to not be visible once you have the default to how you need it.

There may be a much more simple way of doing this though, but this is the quickest way i have found.