Handsontable sort Dropdown items by date

Question

Is there an option to sort your dropdown items (col-type date) by date?

As seen in the image below the date-values are not really sorted by date since 12/1/2014 is not at first position. Hope this additional information helps to understand my question.

example of dropdown date items

Answer 1

I googled it and found an answer from Handsontable team. Unfortunately, the answer is you can't without making a workaround directly in the core of their API.

You’d need to get to the source list of the Filters plugin. That is not possible using our official API.

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