Silly tip of the day - Network name sorting hack !

Silly tip of the day - Network name sorting hack !

Silly tip of the day - Network name sorting hack !
Silly tip of the day - Network name sorting hack !
2025-09-08 14:57:08 - last edited 2025-09-10 06:36:34

Ive been looking at various ways of renaming my networks to keep them in the order that i want - internal stuff at the top, public stuff at the bottom, but every darn time you load the list it defaults to sorting alphabetically.  With this "One Simple Trick that Network Admins Hate" (tm) you can effectively have more than one segment of alphabetical sorting

 

If you have a prefix in your network names (maybe the site, etc, like in my case - BT here), you can use different delineators that are lower or higher in the ASCII / Unicode table to create the sorting "segments"

 

In my case, im using  these two as they are visually identical, but since one is higher up the character set than the other and its used after the prefix, it creates another sorting segment automatically

 

∙ (U+2219, bullet operator) - creating the top segment

· (U+00B7, middle dot) - creating the bottom segment

 

You can also use - and – (U+2013, en dash) which are also very close but the en-dash is slightly longer

 

Without this hack, the bottom three networks on this site would appear all mixed up in the list and i dont want that because it triggers my OCD

 

 

Enjoy 

 

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Re:Silly tip of the day - Network name sorting hack !-Solution
2025-09-10 06:36:32 - last edited 2025-09-10 06:36:34

Hi  @GRL 

 

Thank you for the sharing, the Unicode character sorting technique you shared is indeed an ingenious temporary solution.

We've marked this thread as "solution". 

 

Hope to see more people share their sorting tips!

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Re:Silly tip of the day - Network name sorting hack !-Solution
2025-09-10 06:36:32 - last edited 2025-09-10 06:36:34

Hi  @GRL 

 

Thank you for the sharing, the Unicode character sorting technique you shared is indeed an ingenious temporary solution.

We've marked this thread as "solution". 

 

Hope to see more people share their sorting tips!

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