The Sort by and Filter gadgets under the scrolling list on the Admin elements form (and on several other forms which display lists of elements) enable you to sort and filter the contents of the list, which may be useful when you have a lot of elements displayed. These gadgets appear on many forms which contain a list of elements.

When a new element group is selected, the Sort By option list is initialised to contain a set of options applicable to that element type.

The Filter gadget allows you to restrict the elements shown in the list to names containing given characters. By default, the list will show all elements of the given type, as indicated by the * in the Filter textbox. The wildcards you can use are:

The filter is reset to contain * whenever a new element group is displayed. The filter for each element type is remembered and re-used when the element type is next displayed on the Admin elements form. The filter always operates on the element name.