Sorting reports in Report folder

How are the reports in a report folder actually sorted? 

I have a 4 reports in a folder, but they don't appear to be sorting by name alphabetically, please see screenshot

Asked by Peter Mosinskis on Tue 5/14/19 6:03 PM
I tried this again: readded the reports in the order that they were added to the folder. It didn't work. They still appear in random order. - Peter Mosinskis Thu 7/25/19 4:27 PM
I didn't realize at first that you had numbers at the beginning of your report names, but I tested this and my folder *did* seem sort them first by the number that was at the beginning of the report name, then by the first letter of the name of the report alphabetically. I can't say why yours did not do this, but I bet if you change the name of the reports or copied them and added the copies it would order them similarly. - Mark Sayers Fri 7/26/19 10:08 AM
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Mark Sayers Wed 5/15/19 11:16 AM

Hello Peter,

They are sorted by the order that the reports were added to the folder. This might make a good enhancement to sort them differently, but for now it's by the order they were sorted.

Sincerely,
Mark Sayers
TD Support

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@Peter, Let me know the ticket number and I'll do a "+1". My request would be, "every select query should have an order by clause and as a bonus give the user the option for the results be sorted." Most do, but report folders are a relatively new feature. To me, displaying results in entry sequence, means that the query is incomplete. - Greg Van De Mark Wed 5/15/19 12:24 PM
Greg, I completely agree. Order attribute is optimal, alpha would be second best, order added would be last.
Added as Incident #9317214
- Peter Mosinskis Wed 5/15/19 1:07 PM
Hi Peter,

I think you submitted a support ticket rather than an enhancement request. I'll convert it for you, but in future enhancements are submitted through the "Submit a Product Idea" button on our portal's Home page.
- Mark Sayers Wed 5/15/19 1:36 PM

Peter Mosinskis Wed 5/15/19 1:11 PM

Also added as an enhancement request, incident #9317360

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I added my request: Incident #9367862 - Greg Van De Mark Tue 5/21/19 11:07 AM