CMS (Formerly Content Manager): Hiding, Sorting, and Filtering Fields in Your Collection View
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Manage the fields in your CMS (Content Management System) collection to keep them organized just the way you like. You can choose which fields appear in your collection and reorder them to fit your workflow. Add filters to fields to only show items that meet your criteria. Add sort conditions that define the order in which the items are listed in your collection.
After making adjustments to your collection, you can save them as a custom view for you and site collaborators to use later.
Important:
Hiding, sorting and filtering fields in your collection view does not affect the content on your live site. You can, however, use Status fields to make items visible or hidden on your live site. You can also add filters and sorting conditions to datasets that control what appears in your site's connected elements.
In this article, learn about:
Hiding and reordering fields in your collection
Choose which fields you want to see while managing your collection and the order in which they appear.
To hide and reorder fields:
- Go to CMS in your site's dashboard. Alternatively, you can click CMS
in your Editor, then click Your Collections. - Click the relevant collection.
- Click Manage Fields.
- Choose what you want to do:
- Show or hide fields: Click the checkboxes next to the relevant fields to show or hide them.
- Reorder fields: Click and drag the Reorder icons
next to the fields to change their order.
Tip:
Hover over a field and click the More Actions icon 
to edit, duplicate, or delete it.
to edit, duplicate, or delete it. Sorting items in your collection
Apply your own sorting criteria to a field to sort its items in a certain order. By default, the items are sorted by the time and date in which they were added to the collection, with newer items at the top.
To sort items your collection:
- Go to CMS in your site's dashboard. Alternatively, you can click CMS in your Editor, then click Your Collections.
- Click the relevant collection.
- Click Sort at the top right.
- Click + Add a Sort.
- Click the Sort by drop-down and choose the field you want to sort.
- Select a sorting option under Select the order (e.g. A-Z, Low-High, Oldest-Newest). The options vary depending on the field type.
- Click Add Sort.
Tip:
To edit an existing sort, click Sort, then click the Edit icon 
or click the Delete icon 
to remove it.
or click the Delete icon to remove it. Adding filters to fields to show only certain items
Add filters to fields to only see items in your collection that match certain conditions you define. For example, you could add a filter that only shows items that do or do not contain a specific value. Or you could clean up the collection view by filtering for items where the cell is not empty.
To filter items by field values:
- Go to CMS in your site's dashboard. Alternatively, you can click CMS in your Editor, then click Your Collections.
- Click the relevant collection.
- Click Filter at the top right.
- Click + New Filter.
- Click the Select Field drop-down and choose the field you want to filter.
- Click the Choose a Condition drop-down and select the criteria for your filter. The options vary depending on the field type.
- (If necessary) Click the Enter a value field and enter the value you want to use for the condition.
- Click Add Filter.
Tip:
To edit an existing filter, click Filter, then click the Edit icon or click the Delete icon to remove it.
or click the Delete icon to remove it.