The dropdown is gone; each column header is now a link that sorts by that
column, with an arrow showing the direction. Clicking the column already
sorted reverses it; clicking a different one starts ascending again — going
from "Eintritt, newest first" to "Name" should give you names from A, not
inherit the previous direction.
Names sort by surname and then forename, as asked. Both parts reverse
together: turning only the surname would give Z-A across surnames but A-Z
within each one, which is visible immediately among the fifteen Aigner.
Three of the seven columns are not on the employee row. Bereich and Team
hang off the position, Standort off a lookup table, so they are fetched as
correlated subqueries rather than joins. That is not a style preference: the
same filter chain produces the page *and* the count, and a join onto
position_assignments would double every person who has held more than one
position over time — the line above the list would read 1,203 for 867 people.
Bereich is the level below the company, so it needs to walk up from the unit.
No recursion: org_unit_type has exactly four levels, so two hops up cover it.
Everything sorts `nulls last`, otherwise reversing the direction floats every
person without a position or location to the top.
The expressions live in lib/employee-sort.ts rather than in the page so the
generated SQL can be read in a test — the failure mode here is silent, the
list still shows fifteen rows, just the wrong ones. Eighteen tests, and the
rules are mutation-checked: dropping the forename, dropping the id tiebreaker,
dropping `nulls last`, sorting the location by its uuid, and shortening the
Bereich walk each turn them red.
Not seen in a browser: login goes through the company account and the database
is unreachable. Typecheck, lint, 458 tests and the build are clean.
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Sorting lives in the URL, not the browser. The list is built on the
server and fetched a page at a time, so a client-side sort would only
reorder the fifteen rows on screen — with 867 people that promises an
alphabetical list and delivers something else on page 2.
The sort key is the surname, because that is how the column reads:
"Aigner, Manuel", and whoever looks for someone looks under A. Postgres
runs with the Austrian collation, so Ö sorts with O rather than at the
end of the alphabet.
Only the surname reverses. The id stays ascending: it decides nothing
except ties, and it exists to keep the order total across page
boundaries. Reversing it too would still be deterministic but would flip
the fourteen Winklers relative to each other for no reason anyone asked
for.
The select sits in the filter bar rather than in a clickable column
header — a header would suggest it sorts what is on screen.
Verified: compiled SQL is `order by last_name desc, id` for Z-A; the
parse and direction rules are covered by tests that were mutation-checked
(breaking each rule turns them red). Not verified in the browser — the
login goes through the company account, and the Supabase instance no
longer resolves.
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