sort page trees by date?

[Bob Nicholson]

Page trees in Confluence seem to be sorted alphabetically by default; it's also possible to create a custom order.

Is there anyway to specify that page lists should be sorted by creation date or by modification date. Or better yet, provide tabs to allow the user to change the sort order?

[RianA · Accepted solution]

Hi Bob,

Yes you could sort Page tree macro. You could arrange the position of the page tree macro by alphabetically, time of creation, time of modification, or postion. For more information please refer to the following documentation.
* https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Tree+Macro

Hope this information helps. Cheers!

[Bill_Campbell]

We use the documentation theme so I over rode it in the theme configuration with the WIKI markup

Pagetree supports several options:

Specify the order to display the pages in the tree. This sort order is for display purposes only. It does not permanently re-arrange the page order. The value may be one of the following:

• bitwise — sort alphabetically, for example: title1, title10, title2.
• creation — sort by date of creation.
• modified — sort by order of date last modified.
• natural — sort in 'natural' alphabetical order, for example: title1, title2, title10.
• position — sort by the default Confluence sorting rules. If your pages have been ordered manually, this sort will respect the defined order. Otherwise the pages will be displayed in the 'natural' alphabetical order, such as: title1, title2, title10.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF40/Page+Tree+Macro