# Perspective Table sort column of nested views

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-sort-column-of-nested-views/113185>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective, ignition81, scripting\
**Created:** [January 9, 2026, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-sort-column-of-nested-views/113185 "2026-01-09T19:47:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![deighvihd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@deighvihd](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/deighvihd)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2026, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-sort-column-of-nested-views/113185/1 "2026-01-09T19:47:48Z")

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Is there any way to make a perspective table column that uses nested views sortable? Maybe via an output parameter on the nested view? This table displays real-time data, but the “data” key in table props is static.

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**Author:** ![David\_Stone](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/david_stone/32/79749_2.png) [@David\_Stone](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/David_Stone)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2026, 8:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-sort-column-of-nested-views/113185/2 "2026-01-09T20:38:30Z")

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The value of the cell in the table is what is sortable, the view is sent this value as part of the view rendering.

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**Author:** ![deighvihd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@deighvihd](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/deighvihd)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2026, 10:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-sort-column-of-nested-views/113185/3 "2026-01-09T22:15:38Z")

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Yeah, we are sending a tag path to the view, which is static, and the view handles reading the tag. I wanted to sort based on the value the view has read from that tag. Guess there is no workaround here without restructuring how this component works

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**Author:** ![David\_Stone](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/david_stone/32/79749_2.png) [@David\_Stone](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/David_Stone)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2026, 10:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-sort-column-of-nested-views/113185/4 "2026-01-09T22:21:08Z")

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Read the tags separately and feed the values into the table data. Then it would work fine.

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2026, 11:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-sort-column-of-nested-views/113185/5 "2026-01-09T23:04:07Z")

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> [@David\_Stone](#):
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> Read the tags separately

You might find my Integration Toolkit's `tags()` function helpful for this case.

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**Author:** ![deighvihd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@deighvihd](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/deighvihd)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 3:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-sort-column-of-nested-views/113185/6 "2026-01-13T15:51:57Z")

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Thanks yall, I will look into this 🙂