topic Re: How to sort widgets in a specific order? in Data Engineering

How to sort widgets in a specific order?

laus — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 11:14:39 GMT

I'd like to have a couple of widgets, one for the start and another for end date. I want them to appear in that order but when I run the code below, end date shows up before the start date. How can order in the way I I desired?

dbutils.widgets.text("start_date", "yyyy-mm-dd", "start_date")

dbutils.widgets.text("end_date", "yyyy-mm-dd", "end_date")

Re: How to sort widgets in a specific order?

-werners- — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 11:31:23 GMT

I think widgets are ordered by their label.

So if you would change your label of end_date to zend_date it would appear last.

But that is not very interesting ofc.

I tried if this works with the widget name but that does not do anything.

Re: How to sort widgets in a specific order?

Ravi — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 12:30:02 GMT

@Laura Blancarte @Werner Stinckens You can change the order of widgets displayed in the notebook by going into widget edit mode and dragging the widget to the expected order.

Re: How to sort widgets in a specific order?

laus — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 13:25:13 GMT

@Ravirahul Padmanabhan and @Werner Stinckens , for me going into edit mode as suggested by Ravi worked like a charm! Thank you both!

Re: How to sort widgets in a specific order?

Hubert-Dudek — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 14:26:41 GMT

Hi @Laura Blancarte , That's awesome. Would you like to mark @Ravirahul Padmanabhan post as the best answer?

Re: How to sort widgets in a specific order?

laus — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 14:53:20 GMT

Done 🙂

Re: How to sort widgets in a specific order?

markok — Fri, 23 May 2025 05:16:40 GMT

Doing it manually is not optimal. It should be possible to do this automatically - by creation date or extra function to sort widgets.