I'm familiar with this problem, I've had this before with news sections. There is no setting that I'm aware of that can invert the sort order. The best idea I can think of is this feels like a good case for a publishing event. Perhaps limited to the document type of your news article. This then would update the sort order on publish, and it may need to republish the parent too. A bit of a Friday afternoon idea.

Hi Adrian,

there is a package for this :

http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/unewsmanager

The package contains an eventhandler for auto sort of a special document type. You can use this or you can customize this too.

Maybe another solution is to use the document sorter package (http://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/document-sorter) but I don't know if it also supports V7.

I hope this help you.

Sören

Thanks for that - I've written my own event handler for now.

@Adrian: Could you please share your code snippet with us?

Unfortunately its not 'quite' working, and I've not had time to revisit it yet...

Notice the early return in ContentService_Saved

public class KeepNewContentAtTop : ApplicationEventHandler
    {
        protected override void ApplicationStarted(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication, ApplicationContext applicationContext)
        {
            Umbraco.Core.Services.ContentService.Saved += ContentService_Saved;
            Umbraco.Core.Services.ContentService.Saving += ContentService_Saving;
        }

        void ContentService_Saving(Umbraco.Core.Services.IContentService sender, Umbraco.Core.Events.SaveEventArgs<Umbraco.Core.Models.IContent> e)
        {
            foreach (var a in e.SavedEntities)
            {
                var dirty = (IRememberBeingDirty)a;
                var isNew = dirty.WasPropertyDirty("Id");

                if (isNew)
                {
                    a.SortOrder = 0;
                }

            }
        }

        private void ContentService_Saved(Umbraco.Core.Services.IContentService sender, Umbraco.Core.Events.SaveEventArgs<Umbraco.Core.Models.IContent> e)
        {
            return;
            int idToMoveToTop = -1;


            foreach (var a in e.SavedEntities)
            {
                var dirty = (IRememberBeingDirty)a;
                var isNew = dirty.WasPropertyDirty("Id");

                if (isNew)
                {
                    LogHelper.Debug(this.GetType(), "New article:" + a.Name);

                    var parent = sender.GetById(a.ParentId);

                    if (parent.HasProperty("newestFirst"))
                    {
                        var newestFirst = parent.Properties["newestFirst"].Value as int?;
                        if (newestFirst == 1)
                        {
                            idToMoveToTop = a.Id;
                        } 
                    }
                }
            } // END foreach (var a in e.SavedEntities)

            if (idToMoveToTop != -1)
            {
                var childItems = sender.GetChildren(idToMoveToTop);               

                foreach( var a in childItems){
                    LogHelper.Debug(this.GetType(), a.Name + ":" + a.SortOrder);
                    if (a.Id == idToMoveToTop)
                    {
                        a.SortOrder = 0;
                        LogHelper.Debug(this.GetType(),"Found " + a.SortOrder.ToString());
                    }
                }

                childItems = childItems.OrderBy(i => i.SortOrder);
                sender.Sort(childItems,raiseEvents:false);
            }
        }
    }

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