SharePoint List Item Sort Feature download

List items are stored in SharePoint by default in
the order in which they were created. Other
sorting criteria can be defined using views, e.g.
to sort elements alphabetically by title or by the
modification date. Often there is also the
requirement to change the order of the elements to
be defined manually.

This is can be done out-of-the-box for link lists
only. For custom lists, as a workaround you have
to define an extra column and make extra entries,
which then are used for sorting. A major
disadvantage of this solution is the low
flexibility and high level of manual effort, that
is necessary to maintain. Thus, in the worst
case, all the list elements have to be modified
for an item to move up or down.

Link lists are currently the only lists that out-
of-the-box have a manual sorting function. With
the help of the user interface, you can re-order
entries via the drop-down lists simply. The
SharePoint List Item Sort Feature by Layer2 makes
this feature also available for all other types of
list, e.g. announcements.

The feature comes with an robust installer to
allow it to be easily deployed within any
SharePoint environment. It is available for
SharePoint starting with WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007.