Bases: Multi-column sorting and multi-column grouping

[Lukas.C]

Use case or problem

From my experience, Obsidian Bases has massive potential. First of all, it is faster than Notion or Airtable with the same amount of data.
However, one key feature seems missing in Bases – multi-column sorting or multi-column grouping.
Images below serve as improvised examples. Imagine, we would like to sort by continent (column B). Or quickly switch to sorting by population (column D). Same applies to grouping.

Proposed solution

It would be great if it were possible to create separate tags (like separate column).
For example, “#” would be used for continent, #1# for language, #2# for city population, #3# for GDP numbers.

[Lukas.C]

This could probably be solved with a plugin too, and that plugin would be very useful for me and many others.

[Lukas.C]

Does nobody else miss this feature?

[Zodian]

I am still unsure what you are requesting.
You can sort by multiple columns in bases.

[Lukas.C]

I am sorry if I am missing something obvious.

How would you add another column for “national language“?

And then one more for “city population“ and one more for “GPD per capita“?

Not a separate view which shows a different column, but one view with multiple columns, like the improvised Excel example above.

[Lukas.C]

[Lukas.C]

Solved!

Rookie mistake, sorry about that.

[Lukas.C]

Could we delete this, so that it doesn’t clutter “feature requests“ sub-forum?

I spent way too much time trying to get this to work and genuinely thought that this was a missing feature. Sorry for the mistake!

[Zodian]

I have moved you post to the help section.

You may post the solution and mark it as solution.

[Lukas.C]

Figured it out now.

Testing now.

Thank you @Zodian.