Why can the settings of the Bitrix component be displayed incorrectly in the visual editor?

Question

1C-Bitrix

Hello!
There is a page with some php code (maybe this is important) and a catalog.top component. It is important to periodically change the sort order from Sort Index to Impressions and vice versa.
If you open this page in a visual editor (simply through the Edit Page in the Panel or through the Site Structure in the admin), then the property "By which field we sort the elements" is always set to "Sort index", even if at that time in the file "ELEMENT_SORT_FIELD " => "shows" .
Well, actually, the question. Why can this be so? Is it related to the fact that there is just php code on the page (I just don't have any other ideas)? The write permissions are all set correctly, and it does not swear at them.

Answer 1

Are these configs written in the folder with the component template?