Is it possible to pass a placeholder value into the sortBy array inside the initialState of the useTable hook so that no sortBy is used depending on an external value?

[lilfrootyloops]

My goal is to only use that specific default sorting depending on a study's status.

I'm able to conditionally change the sortBy value by using a ternary operator; however, it seems like the values I choose as placeholders aren't working as intended. I've tried passing in null and an empty {}, but null returns an error and the empty {} creates a reverse order.

The following is my current structure:

initialState: {
    pageSize: 15,
    sortBy: [ study.status === 'Active' ? { desc: false, id: 'did' } : {} ],
},

I tried using an If statement and ternary outside of the sortBy; however, that gave me some syntax issues. Perhaps I formatted it wrong, but because those options didn't work for me, I tried putting the ternary inside of the sortBy, which seems to be working; however, I'm just confused as to what I should include as the alternative value in the ternary so that the default sorting is used.

I'd really appreciate any suggestions as to how I can implement what I'm trying to do.