Changing the default sort order on the Faults page in the ESB Portal

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A small oversight (at least in my mind) in the ESB Portal quickly proves to become a major irritant after using it for awhile.  The default sort order on the faults page is by severity, which if you’re like me, is almost never the logical choice when viewing the page.  I would much rather be seeing it sorted by the time when the fault occurred and if I want to view the data any other way I can always change the sort order or apply filters.

The ESB portal uses an ASP.Net Grid and it’s default implementation doesn’t specify a sort order, thus on page load it will always sort by it’s first column which is severity.  Thus you’ve got two choices, either change the order of the columns, or add some new behavior which defines the default sort behavior.  I’ve explored the latter path.

In order to make the changes…

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