[Plugin: Gravity Forms Directory & Addons] Sort by category?

EDIT: So I found in the FAQ to use sort=”8″ in my shortcode with 8 being the correct filed ID. This doesn’t sort the list. Is this a known bug? Is there a fix?

Even if we resolve that, what I’m hoping for is to be able to make each region a header with the items listed under it rather than a table where the region is listed every time.

My test version of this isn’t live but here’s a capture of 4 items added via GF to the directory: https://awesomescreenshot.com/056qu0773

Note that the 2 Seattle entires are not together which is what I would expect a SORT to do. I’d also expect them to be alphabetical by Region since that’s the field I sorted on.

Thanks to a 4 month old post by New_B which said

sort option under the Additional settings section through the editor’s directory button. Default is date_created. The description next to it is “Use the input ID ( example: 1.3 or 7 or ip )”. This was not readily apparent that this is for sorting.

I figured out that putting the sort=8 in the shortcode didn’t do it BUT putting that 8 in the additional settings section per above did the trick. So one issue down.

NOW…if someone can help me figure out how to force this to separate by regions with a heading for each region instead of repeating the region on each line… is that even possible?!

Thanks.