UI-Table sort on load

Hi, sure I try to help

Sorry to say but it is not of the best examples for practical use. It is more a demo and not good designed as it only records table entries when the table is visible on the dashboard.
For handling all kinds of table related stuff look at the "ui-table handler" included in this example.

Here the context storage is placed before the table so it records entries when they arrive regardless if the table is visible or not and replays everything when the tab gets visible by ui_conrol.

I don`t know how the effect happens (are you using the add on top feature?) but perhaps experiment with Sort Order section here (Tabulator | JavaScript Tables & Data Grids) . Be carefull to read the docs for version 4.4! This is the version included in ui-table.

That should not happen. Please make sure that the message including msg.ui_control has either no msg.payloador valid data (perhaps use a change or function node with delete msg.payload). Sending ui_control should change the layout but not the data if no payload is send (but perhaps I have to do some tests)