Enable sorting by new fields from entitycore, address circuit sorting

[pgetta]

Summary

• Enable sorting for new fields supported by entity-core backend (entitycore#561, entitycore#563)
• Disable sorting UI in circuit hierarchy view where row order is determined by the derivation tree

Changes

New sortable fields (entity-configuration/definitions/fields-defs/)

common.tsx:

• BrainRegion — extend to Circuit subtypes, IonChannelModel, IonChannelRecording, EMCellMesh, Emodel, ComputationallySynthesizedCellMorphology
• SpeciesName — extend to CellMorphology, UniversalCellMorphology, ComputationallySynthesizedCellMorphology, IonChannelModel, IonChannelRecording, Circuit, MEModelWithSynapses
• CreatedBy — extend to Circuit subtypes, EMCellMesh, EModel, IonChannelModel, Simulation, SimulationCampaign subtypes
• Contributions / InstitutionalContributions — fix broken order config (contribution__order_by/pref_label → order_by/contribution__pref_label), enable sorting
• IonChannel — fix order value (ion_channel → ion_channel__name)

model.tsx:

• Enable sorting for CircuitNumberNeurons, CircuitNumberSynapses, CircuitNumberConnections, CircuitScale, CircuitBuildCategory
• Add order config for TemperatureCelsius, IsLjpCorrected, IsStochastic, IsTemperatureDependent (IonChannelModel)
• Extend NumberConnections sorting to MEModelWithSynapses
• Enable sorting for ArtifactPublishedIn, ArtifactExperimentDate (Circuit)

experimental.tsx:

• Enable sorting for MeshType (EMCellMesh)
• Extend MType sorting to Memodel
• Enable sorting for EType on IonChannelRecording, ExperimentalNeuronDensity, and Memodel
• Add order config for IonChannel, Temperature, CellLine (IonChannelRecording)
• Enable sorting for NumberOfMeasurements, MeanSTD, Sem (ExperimentalBoutonDensity)
• Enable sorting for PreSynapticBrainRegion, PostSynapticBrainRegion, PreSynapticCellType, PostSynapticCellType (ExperimentalSynapsesPerConnection)

experiment.tsx:

• Remove duplicate CircuitNumberNeurons, CircuitNumberSynapses, CircuitNumberConnections definitions (now in model.tsx)

Disable sorting in circuit hierarchy view

• use-data-table-columns.tsx — gate isSortable on setSortState being provided; fix stale sort-state closure via ref; simplify sortDirections to ['ascend', 'descend']
• circuit/index.tsx — pass undefined for sortState/setSortState in hierarchy view

Test plan

• Open Circuit, IonChannelModel, IonChannelRecording, EMCellMesh, EModel, CellMorphology tables and verify sort arrows on new columns
• Click sort and confirm correct order_by param in network requests
• Switch circuit table to hierarchy view — sort arrows should be hidden
• Switch back to flat view — sort arrows reappear and work
• Open ME-Model table — verify sort arrows on M-Type, E-Type columns
• Open Bouton Density table — verify sort arrows on Mean ± STD, SEM, N° of Measurements columns
• Open Synapses per Connection table — verify sort arrows on Brain Region [From/To], Cell Type [From/To] columns
• Open Circuit table — verify sort arrows on Published in, Experiment date columns

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Preview Deployment

Branch	Status	Preview	Updated
feat/extend-list-ordering-props	❌ Deleted	-	Apr 22, 2026 at 2:27 PM (UTC)

[pgetta]

FYI, @jdcourcol

[bilalesi]

👍

[jdcourcol]

cool I will give it a try

[jdcourcol]

wow, it is very slow now.

[pgetta]

@jdcourcol do you think we should we asses ways to improve performance and address the issue before merging this or it's "fine" as is?

[jdcourcol]

we definitely have a performance issue. probably, @bilalesi PR related to facets should improve the situation.

Also, I notice we have to add additional sorting fields to entitycore, I will follow up on this.

[jdcourcol]

for ion channel recordings we are missing the following:

[jdcourcol]

for neuron density, we are missing the following:

[pgetta]

@jdcourcol thank you, sorting for both: ion channel recordings and neuron density should be addressed now, I've enabled missing columns.

[pgetta]

Relates to Next.staging/ Explore > List view - to create column sorting for all artifacts (as it was before entity).

[pgetta]

Thank you Bilal