The functionality currently exists in the webapp to "Configure Sort" of a BOM view - in the below view I've configured a sort by Item Type as a first level, Item Name as a second level.
When I navigate away from this view, this sort specification will be lost. As a result, managers often have designers manually go through assembly BOMs and drag items into a sorted sequence order one-by-one until this desired sort order (by item type) is defaulted to when they open a BOM view, wasting time that should be spent adding value to the designs.
The following should be available instead:
- Users should be able to set a default sort order for their profile, and new BOM views should automatically show in this sort order.
- Users should be able to save their personalized sort configurations and be able to quickly change between them.
- In conjunction with a previous post I've made, it should be possible to quickly navigate down through the tree to effectively Ctrl+F the Item Name/Number/etc you're looking for. Having to manually scroll through a gigantic list is not a good solution, even though the ability to persist the sort order will definitely improve that.
- In my view, this is somewhat of a stretch goal/extra: Once the desired sort order is achieved for a BOM, it could be possible to push that order through to the sequence number such that sorting by sequence number reproduces the same sort.