Is there a way to sort items by something other than Title when in Template View? I would like to be able to sort by Last Modifed or by a custom attribute, and either ascending or descending.

Another request/suggestion: when setting up a token to display a custom attribute in Template View, the attribute name property is case sensitive. If this was case insensitive it might save some confusion.

This won't work in the template view, but we figured out that by adding a custom integer attribute field that we could modify the Order By string in the category list module settings to sort on that custom field and thus to create an ad hoc sorting mechanism.

We created a new custom field name "SortOrder" and for all documents we can number them accordingly such as 10, 20, 40, 30, etc. Then in the settings for the category module we add:

>> SortOrder, LastModified DESC, Title  (or use whatever other fields are desired for sorting)

This works well for us now. My only request for a future release would be the ability to add a "default" field for any custom attribute. For example, in this case I'd like to be able to set a default of "9999" so the default sort order would fall back to the LastModified date unless specific sort order values lower than that are entered. I could probably order by "SortOrder DESC" and enter my sort values from high to low which would let all those with null go the bottom of the sort, but that would not be as intuitive for our end users.

I thought I might be able to add a default for some specific column directly in the database somewhere but apparently it isn't that easy. If that IS possible, please let me know. Otherwise, consider it an enhancement suggestion.

I know this is an old topic and maybe there is already a solution but I managed to let my users sort the tables by column. I have a customer who uses DMX Template Views very often and they needed some solution to let their users sort the tables (in Template View) based on the columns. So, I search for a script who can do this and found a Jquery solution here: http://tablesorter.com/docs/. After implementation my tables can be sorted by clicking on the columntitles. It works great for documenttitles, numbers and even document types (PDF, Word, Excel).

So Peter, maybe you can use this?

 the benefits of tablesorter would be that it's jquery connected... i haven't seen it in a while, but wanted to also recommend TableCloth. It's another javascript table sorter which does styling, alternating row styles, sorting, rearranging column order, and best of all pagination of rows. Very smooth... you might want to look it up if you're not getting everything you want out of tablesorter.