Manual Sorting

Manual Sorting: By Mouse or Keyboard
• By Mouse. You can drag items to position by their 'item indicator' at the left. The item indicator is only enabled for dragging when a small 'm' is visible on it. Else, press 'Print Preview' (see below) or enable manual sorting for the folder (expand 'Print Preview').
• By Keyboard. Press Alt+Up (or Alt+Down) and the current selection moves accordingly.

When a new folder is created, it is applied the default Sort Method
When you create a new folder, it is applied the default Sort Method, which can be 'Manual' or 'Alphabetic'. But you can change this setting per folder (expand the 'Sort Preview' button for the folder). It is therefore important to select the default Sort Method (when the project is created) according to the most used sort method of a particular project.

Temporary Sorting
A folder's contents (and other lists) can be also sorted by pressing a column header on the 'Folder Contents' list. This is, however, only a temporary sort order. It does not affect the final sorting of items, as it appears on the web.

What does 'Sort Preview' do?
Two things:
• It provides the user with a preview of the true final sort order of items on the web, after items are appended, deleted, etc. in the 'Folder Contents' list. That's a preview only; with or without it, the folder's content gets sorted anyway.
• Restores dragging to position in manual sorting folders, after some temporary sort order has been employed. For instance, you've been dragging items to position in a folder that's set for manual sorting. At some point, you need to see the items sorted by their filenames, and press the 'Filename' column header. Now, in order to be able to drag items to position again, first press 'Sort Preview'; this restores the order you've been working on.