how to make tree alphabetical?

[Former Community Member]

Hi everyone, I was wondering how do you make the tree structure go in alphabetical order vs being by publish date?

I'm attaching the image. 

Thanks!

[smacdonald2008]

Out of the box - you cannot re-order the nodes in CRXDE Lite based alphabetical order. 

However -- you can use the JCR API to modify nodes. Create Java code that creates nodes based on an alphabetical order. 

See this community article that talks about using the JCR API:

http://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/programmatically-accessing-cq-content-using.html

To re-order them, create logic that reads the existing JCR repo location, order them, delete the old structure and create the new structure based on the order you want. 

[Former Community Member]

Thanks a lot! Is it still the same case if this is not actually related to CRXDE lite but the "Websites" page in the Author environment? Sending an updated image

[aanchal-sikka · Accepted solution]

Please refer to this tool from ACS Commons

https://adobe-consulting-services.github.io/acs-aem-commons/features/sort-nodes/index.html

Sort Nodes is a tool to sort child nodes by node name or jcr:title, for example, to alphabetize pages or tags in Sites Admin.