Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

Creating a custom sorting routine to sort the content tree items

Sorting content items is a very useful feature for content authors when they have to work with a number of items in a common parent. Sitecore provides some out-of-the-box sorting rules such as Created By, Display Name, Logical, Reverse, Updated, and others.

However, sometimes content authors might need a custom rule of sorting. For example, they created a news items with the dd-MM-yyyy format, so content authors getting an invalid order of news items by applying out-of-the-box rules. In this recipe, you will learn how to create a custom sorting rule to sort by the News Date field.

Getting Ready

Create some news items under the 2015 folder, as shown on the left-hand side of the following ...