Your solution controls the sort order of the linked data in the base table cell.
But the problem we have is in the resulting Page Design: When the sorted cell data is displayed in (Table) format on a page (report), the sort order on the Page is still unchanged.
How can we control the sort order on the Page Design output??
The order in Page Design for a linked field (Table) page field is still controlled by the literal row order of the linked field table, when viewed in Default View-- this order can only be changed by dragging and dropping to change the ordering of the rows.
We experimented a lot with ordering the rows, as well as re-ordering the links without any success of changing the ordering of the report output. The gating factor seems to be the logic of the ordering used by the Page Design plugin, and we could not find any configuration within it to change the ordering from Default View table order to some other order.