Sorting categories alphabetical

Hello,

I want to order the categories in alphabetical order. Right now if i go to my categorie overview the categories in the left horizontal bar are sorted the way i want. But the thumbnails on the right not. I can find any setting to do so.

Usefull to know is that i use the Alias field in a catagorie item to sync the categories with our backend database. And if i look in the tree view of the categories at the admin page(catalog > categories), the categories are sorted by alias and not by its name.

Is this something is can fix with a setting?

Hello Yoram, not shure how you need it. Could you attach a screenshot please? Thank you! Greetings, Stefan

I've uploaded a screenshot. As you can see, the problem is partially solved. I have changed the display order for each category so the shop now sorts it correctly. But there must be a way to sort the categories (marked red) alphabetically?

I had to change this on mine too. One way to do this is to go to the CategoryTemplate.ProductsInGridOrLines.cshtml view and change the line:

@foreach (var item in Model.SubCategories)

to

@foreach (var item in Model.SubCategories.OrderBy(x => x.DisplayOrder).ThenBy(x => x.Name))

Then reset all your DisplayOrder values to 0 and it will then sort by name by default.

Thanks for your answer altmoola! I will discuss with our IT deparment to apply the change.

Altough, i think it is a good option to have this option in the settings on the admin page.