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.

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