Is it possible to change the default order to descending in the UI?

Summary:

In a search screen of collections we need the screen to be default sorted on start date. Now the users have to change this everytime they open the screen. Is it possible to change the default sorting order of the UI?

I tried to do this via page customization and here is the possibility available to make a column sortable but can you also somehow default the column and order here? Maybe via Expression Editor? Or is there an other way?

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Version (include the version you are using, if applicable): 11.13.23.07.0

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