Signals Notebook: Exploring Sorting Options Available in Signals Notebook

This article explains the sorting options available for listing records in Signals Notebook.

Best match

This option is available in Advanced Search and is the default sorting logic for the Search Entities API (POST /entities/search). Best Match uses heuristic scoring to rank results relative to the search query.

In the Search Entities API, the equivalent logic is to specify no sorting option.

Created

This option sorts records by their Created date and time value. This sorting method is recommended when retrieving a large list of records via the external API across multiple API calls, as the record order remains consistent between calls.

In the Search Entities API, the equivalent logic is to sort by the createdAt field.

Modified

This option sorts records by their Modified date and time value. This sorting method is useful when you want to identify recently updated records.

In the Search Entities API, the equivalent logic is to sort by the modifiedAt field.

Name

This option sorts records by their Name value in alphabetical order. This sorting method is useful when experiments or other resources follow a naming convention based on auto-numbering templates.

In the Search Entities API, the equivalent logic is to sort by the name field.