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Three column headers in the dashboard do nothing when you click them. Not on the first click, and not on any click after it — they stay dead until some other column in the same table is sorted, which is the only thing that brings them back to life.

Where Dead header
Group → Peers, and Accessible Peers Name
Routes Metric
Okta SSO → domain verification Domain

To reproduce: open a Group → Peers and click the Name header. The list does not reorder, however many times you click it. Now click Address, then Name — and Name sorting works from then on.

Root cause

Those three tables are the only ones in the app whose default sort has more than one column:

  • MinimalPeersTable.tsx:105-118[connected desc, last_seen desc, name asc]
  • RouteTable.tsx:103-111[network_id desc, metric desc]
  • DomainVerificationTable.tsx:45-54[is_current desc, name desc]

In each case the dead header is the last entry. A header click calls column.toggleSorting(), whose non-multi branch in @tanstack/table-core 8.21.3 (RowSorting.ts) only replaces the sort when the clicked column is not the last entry of the current sort:

if (old?.length && existingIndex !== old.length - 1) sortAction = 'replace'
else if (existingSorting)                            sortAction = 'toggle'
else                                                 sortAction = 'replace'

name is the last entry, so every click toggles it in place — flipping only its desc behind the dominant connected/last_seen sorts — and the visible order never changes. Clicking a different column does hit the replace branch, which collapses the sort to a single entry; from that point name is no longer last and starts behaving. That is why the bug looks intermittent, and why it is easy to miss when testing.

Only the last entry of a default sort is affected — columns earlier in it, and every table with a single-column default sort, work fine. That is why the list is three headers rather than the whole app, and it is also why clicking around casually makes the bug disappear.

This is already a known sharp edge in this codebase: PeersTable.tsx:180-195 works around it for one column by reaching for the onSort escape hatch and calling table.setSorting([{ id: "last_seen", desc: !desc }]) by hand. This PR generalises that workaround to every header; the bespoke override can be retired separately.

Changes

  • DataTableContext — exposes the tanstack table instance to anything rendered inside DataTable, mirroring the existing ServerPaginationProvider pattern. DataTableHeader is rendered from ~200 column definitions across 46 files, so threading table through as a prop is not realistic; only one of those call sites currently pulls it out of the header render props. useOptionalDataTable() returns null rather than throwing, and the header keeps a column.toggleSorting() fallback, so a header rendered outside a DataTable degrades instead of crashing.
  • DataTableHeader — a click now replaces the sort with the clicked column alone, regardless of its position.
  • Direction is taken from whether the column already leads the sort, rather than from column.getIsSorted(). name reports "asc" while it sits at the bottom of the default sort, so deriving direction from it would open with a descending sort on a list the user reads as unsorted. This also collapses a second, duplicate direction computation that previously ran after the sort had been applied, so the local sort and the server-side setSort can no longer disagree.

Header clicks never passed tanstack's multi flag and there is no shift-click multi-sort UI anywhere in the app (no enableMultiSort, isMultiSortEvent or maxMultiSortColCount in the tree), so forcing a single-column sort does not remove behaviour anyone can currently reach.

Verification

src/components/table/DataTableHeader.test.tsx covers four cases, including the reported bug asserted on the rendered row order, not just on sorting state. Reverting DataTableHeader.tsx to main turns two of them red, with sorting stuck at [connected desc, last_seen desc, name desc] and the row order unchanged — the bug exactly as reported.

Run locally on node 20, matching unit-tests.yml:

npm run test:unit
 Test Files  47 passed (47)
      Tests  641 passed (641)

eslint and prettier are clean on all four touched files, and tsc --noEmit reports nothing in them.

Note that CI has never actually run on this PR — every workflow sits at action_required, since runs from a fork need a maintainer to approve them.

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N/A — reported internally, no public issue.

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Internal table sort-behaviour bug fix with no user-facing API or configuration surface to document.

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DataTable now provides its table instance through React context. DataTableHeader reads the context to replace the current sort with the clicked column and preserves a fallback for missing context.

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Context and sorting flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Context provider wiring
src/components/table/DataTableContext.tsx, src/components/table/DataTable.tsx
Defines the TanStack table context and wraps the DataTable content with DataTableInstanceProvider.
Header sorting and validation
src/components/table/DataTableHeader.tsx, src/components/table/DataTableHeader.test.tsx
Uses the table instance to set single-column sorting, computes direction changes, preserves column toggling without context, and tests client and server sorting behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 65463

Header clicks outside the table provider can incorrectly force ascending order and send the wrong sort direction to server-paginated tables. The fallback must preserve existing toggle behavior before this PR is merge-ready.

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A rabbit sorts the rows,
One column leads the way,
The table shares its state,
Tests watch each hop and turn,
Context keeps the path clear.

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src/components/table/DataTableContext.tsx (1)

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Import Table from @tanstack/react-table to ensure stability with strict package managers.

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In `@src/components/table/DataTableContext.tsx`:
- Line 3: The DataTableContext import is pulling the Table type from the
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Update the TanStack type import in DataTableContext to use `@tanstack/react-table`
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Header cells only receive their column, not the table instance, so they
cannot replace the table's whole sort. Add a lightweight context that
exposes the table to anything rendered inside DataTable, mirroring the
existing ServerPaginationProvider pattern.

DataTableHeader is rendered from roughly 200 column definitions across 46
files, so passing the table down as a prop is not practical; only one of
those call sites currently pulls it out of the header render props.
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} else {
const direction = column.getIsSorted() === "asc" ? "desc" : "asc";
column.toggleSorting(direction === "desc");
column.toggleSorting(desc);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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Preserve fallback direction toggling.

When table is unavailable, handleSort passes false to column.toggleSorting, which forces ascending order instead of toggling an existing descending sort. The same value causes server pagination to report "asc". Use the fallback toggle result for both sorting and server pagination, and add an unwrapped-header test for descending input.

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In `@src/components/table/DataTableHeader.tsx` at line 48, Update handleSort in
the table header to derive the fallback sort direction by toggling the current
column state when table is unavailable, then reuse that direction for both
column.toggleSorting and server-pagination reporting instead of forcing
false/ascending. Add an unwrapped-header test covering descending input and the
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Clicking a header called column.toggleSorting(), which in tanstack's
normal (non-multi) mode only replaces the sort when the clicked column is
not the last entry of the current sort (existingIndex !== old.length - 1);
otherwise it toggles that entry in place. The peers tables default to
[connected, last_seen, name], so clicking Name only flipped its desc
behind the dominant connected/last_seen sorts. The visible order never
changed, however many times it was clicked, and only started responding
once a different column had been clicked and collapsed the sort to a
single entry.

Use the table instance from context to setSorting() to a single column,
forcing a replace regardless of the column's position. Falls back to the
previous toggleSorting() when no provider is present.

Take the direction from whether the column already leads the sort rather
than from column.getIsSorted(). Name reports "asc" while it sits at the
bottom of the default sort, so deriving the direction from it would open
with a descending sort on a list the user reads as unsorted. This also
collapses a second, duplicate direction computation that ran after the
sort had already been applied.
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Silex force-pushed the fix/table-header-sort-noop branch from 6546379 to ee92853 Compare September 2, 2026 14:23
@Silex Silex changed the title fix: header sort is a no-op on first click for default-sorted columns fix: a default multi-sort's last column will not sort until another is clicked Sep 2, 2026
@Silex Silex changed the title fix: a default multi-sort's last column will not sort until another is clicked fix: Name, Metric and Domain column headers do nothing when clicked Sep 2, 2026
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@heisbrot — mind taking a look at this, or pointing me at whoever should? You've been in src/components/table/ most recently, so you seemed like the right person to ask.

Two things would unblock it:

  1. Approving the workflow run. Every check here sits at action_required — runs from a fork need a maintainer to start them — so this PR has never actually had CI. The missing green ticks aren't a failure, they're nothing having run.
  2. A read on the approach, which is the part I'd most like a second opinion on.

The bug: three column headers do nothing when clicked — Name on the peers tables, Metric on Routes, Domain on the Okta domain list — and they keep doing nothing however many times you click them. Each one is the last entry of its table's default multi-sort, and in that position column.toggleSorting() toggles the entry in place instead of replacing the sort. Sorting by any other column in the same table collapses the sort to one entry and the dead header comes back to life, which is what makes this easy to miss.

PeersTable.tsx:180-195 already works around it by hand for last_seen via onSort; this generalises that to every header, so the override can go. Doing it properly needs the table instance inside the header cell, hence the small context — happy to take a different route if you'd rather not add one.

The new test asserts on the rendered row order and goes red on main; the full unit suite passes locally on node 20.

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