Visualise the initial sort state, and disable sort for specific columns

[Ollie]

When I click on a column to sort it, an arrow appears indicating the sort direction.

I'm missing a way to ensure that this arrow is present initially when a sort is pre-applied, there doesn't appear to be any sortable, sorted or sortDirection or similar props on the Column type to provide information about the initial state, before the table is interacted with. My remote data query however has a default sort, and it would be ideal if I could reflect that in the UI

Just FYI I'm using SortingMode.SingleRemote.

I'm also not sure how to disable sorting on a specific column - I have some columns which should not be sortable within a table of otherwise sortable columns. I saw this comment suggesting not to dispatch the props change, but that seems to completely prevent all sorting from the point that the non-sortable column is interacted with onwards.

[Alexander Komarov]

Hi @olliejm there is ‘sortDirection’ property for the column
Docs https://ka-table.com/docs_props.html#toc1
Demo https://komarovalexander.github.io/ka-table/#/sorting

[Alexander Komarov]

“I'm also not sure how to disable sorting on a specific column - I have some columns which should not be sortable within a table of otherwise sortable columns. I saw #162 (comment) suggesting not to dispatch the props change, but that seems to completely prevent all sorting from the point that the non-sortable column is interacted with onwards.”

I think the best way is to add one more property to column ‘isSortable’ - I can do it later, probably this week.

but for now you can wrap the reducer https://ka-table.com/docs_reducer.html#toc2

or prevent the headerCell onClick using the childComponents

[Ollie]

Thanks. I missed the sortDirection somehow

[Alexander Komarov]

column.isSortable was added in v7.6.0
details here: https://github.com/komarovalexander/ka-table/releases/tag/7.6.0