Taxonomy sorting in view

Question

I am a Drupal newbie using Drupal 7.

I made a taxonomy for documents, and then a view in the views module to list the documents. When the view searches by the taxonomy term, it seems to sort by the term's ID number, rather than the name of the term. I want an alpha sort on the term, not the ID number. Is there a setting to change this that I've missed, or do I need to do programming to change it? Seems like a pretty common situation.

ID   Name
1    Homeland Security
2    Criminal Justice
3    Violence Against Women

will sort as above, not with Criminal Justice first.

Answer 1

Make sure you have Taxonomy: Term selected under the Sort Criteria box and not Taxonomy: Term ID.

I believe the sort that you are seeing under Format -> Settings is where you can select which fields are sortable and the default sort for a view of format: Table. Making a field sortable creates a clickable link as a header for the table column allowing you to change the sort order by that field.

Answer 2

• Create a view and select type as Term
• Add field Taxonomy Term
• Add sort criteria Taxonomy Term and then define sort order