[AviPeltz]

Why

Sidebar projects were observed jumping position after reordering a workspace inside a project — an operation that never writes project order.

Root cause: the sidebar's project/section/workspace queries order by tabOrder alone, and tabOrders can collide (bulk ensure paths like the dev sidebar seeder can mint duplicates). A tie left to the query engine is broken arbitrarily, so any unrelated re-emission of the sidebar data pipeline — e.g. the flurry of local-state writes a workspace drag commits — can flip tied rows. Dragging a project self-heals the data (reorderProjects renumbers 1..n), which is why the issue is intermittent and stops reproducing after a manual project drag.

Fix

Chain a stable id as a secondary orderBy on all three queries in useDashboardSidebarData (projectId / sectionId / workspaceId). Order is now fully deterministic even with duplicate tabOrders.

Validation

• Desktop typecheck clean, all 26 sidebar tests pass, changed file Biome-clean.
• Persisted tabOrders inspected live via CDP during diagnosis: duplicates explain the observed jump; current values are unique, so this is preventative determinism rather than a reproducible-bug fix.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01SSUQYFamkYAjs5sDQC5RLS

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Summary by cubic

Fixes sidebar item jumping by making project, section, and workspace ordering deterministic. New projects now prepend to the top of the list; project rows sort in JS with a stable tiebreak so order stays correct after inserts or updates.

• Bug Fixes

  • Projects: select tabOrder and sort rows in JS by tabOrder then projectId (fixes incremental orderBy not re-sorting; new projects no longer stick at the bottom until reload).
  • Sections/Workspaces: add secondary orderBy on sectionId/workspaceId after tabOrder in useDashboardSidebarData.
  • Prevents flicker and unexpected reordering during workspace drags or sidebar re-emits.

• New Features

  • Projects: newly added projects now appear at the top of the sidebar (prepend tabOrder), consistent with workspace placement.

^{Written for commit b7a6bbe. Summary will update on new commits.}

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved dashboard sidebar ordering consistency when multiple projects, sections, or workspaces share the same tab position.
  • Ensured deterministic sidebar row ordering across updates by adding stable tie-breaks for equal tab positions.

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Ready to review this PR? Stage has broken it down into 3 individual chapters for you:

	Title
1	Prepend new projects to the sidebar
2	Implement deterministic project sorting in JS
3	Add tie-breaking to section and workspace queries

_{Chapters generated by Stage for commit b7a6bbe on Jul 27, 2026 10:03pm UTC.}

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Dashboard sidebar LiveQuery pipelines now produce deterministic project, section, and workspace ordering when tab-order values collide.

Changes

Dashboard sidebar ordering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Stable sidebar row ordering apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/_dashboard/components/DashboardSidebar/hooks/useDashboardSidebarData/useDashboardSidebarData.ts	Project rows are sorted in JavaScript by tabOrder and projectId; section and workspace queries add ascending identifier tie-breakers after their primary tab-order sorts.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• superset-sh/superset#5197: Both PRs modify dashboard sidebar ordering in useDashboardSidebarData.ts.
• superset-sh/superset#5756: Both PRs update dashboard sidebar ordering and tabOrder tie-breaking logic.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title matches the main change: deterministic sidebar ordering, including the new project-prepend behavior.
Description check	✅ Passed	It covers the problem, fix, and validation, but it doesn't match the template headings exactly and omits the checklist.

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