How to sort and save the sorted table in app designer?

I am using "uitable" to display an editable and sortable table after reading data from an excel sheet. However, when I sort the data which works fine (using the vertical arrow on the top of each column), it works fine but cannot save the table in the new order of rows (it only save the edited data using the original order of rows). Any idea? I am using the latest version of MATLAB. Thanks.

Answer 1

[Nathan Gyger]

Hi Ismaeel,

You can use the DisplayData property of the uitable as this always holds a table that is sorted in the same order as it is selected in the ui.

Answer 2

[KSSV]

idx = randperm(10)' ; 
x = rand(10,1) ;
T = table(idx,x) 

T = 10×2 table
    idx       x    
    ___    ________

     9     0.065109
     5      0.67649
     3      0.76369
     8      0.95726
     4       0.6604
     1      0.52381
    10      0.90536
     6      0.23863
     2      0.20491
     7      0.42844

[val,idx] = sort(T.(1)) ;
T = T(idx,:)

T = 10×2 table
    idx       x    
    ___    ________

     1      0.52381
     2      0.20491
     3      0.76369
     4       0.6604
     5      0.67649
     6      0.23863
     7      0.42844
     8      0.95726
     9     0.065109
    10      0.90536

[Ismaeel]

Thank you KSSV for your reply. I am using uitable in the app designer. I am sorting the table accoridng to a column I select using the arrow on the top of the column. Then I push a "save" button I created to save the just-sorted data to an Excel sheet using "writecell" or "writetable" functions. The sorting does not take place programmically as in your example, rather I use the GUI sorting option. There is no problem in saving the edited table but it only saves the edited data using the same order of the rows. As you know, when you sort a table, the order of rows changes.