NetBox version

v4.4.7

Feature type

Change to existing functionality

Proposed functionality

Currently when installing a module, the sorting in the 'module bay' dropdown appears to be by module id.
Can we get this changed to be alphabetical?

Use case

When installing a module, let's suppose you created 3 modules called "fan1", "fan2", "fan3". Then you create 2 modules called "psu1", and "psu2".

Now let's say you did an oopsie and actually need 4 fan modules. So you go back and add 1 more fan module "fan4".

Now when you go to install modules, the drop down selector for "module bay" has "fan4" at the bottom of the list. Rather than having fan1, fan2, fan3, fan4, psu1, psu2 ... it actually is listed as fan1, fan2, fan3, psu1, psu2, fan4.

For devices with lots of modules, it can be confusing for users.

I'll add, that this seems to only be an issue if you manually create modules on a device after the device has been created from a device type.
It seems during the device creation process, modules are created in alphabetical order, so they would naturally be alphabetical in the dropdown. But if you create modules after the fact, the alphabetical sorting is disrupted.

So now you end up with instances where maybe on some devices it IS alphabetical (by nature of device id's having been created that way), and other devices where it ISN'T, causing even further confusion.

Database changes

none

External dependencies

none